SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) — With more people returning to the office amid easing of social distancing restrictions, instances of workplace harassment have also been on the rise, a survey showed Sunday. According to a poll by Embrain Public, conducted between June 10 and 16 on 1,000 office workers aged 19 or older, 29.6 [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly six out of 10 South Koreans feel first lady Kim Keon-hee has not done well in her role over the first month and a half of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s term, a survey showed Wednesday. Data Research polled 1,000 South Korean adults Monday on Kim’s performance as first lady [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — About 4 out of 10 companies in South Korea saw their raw material prices jump 20 percent or more this year amid fast-rising oil and commodity bills, a central bank survey showed Monday. According to the survey by the Bank of Korea on 570 firms, 40.3 percent said so, [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 South Koreans believe the government should only provide non-military aid to Ukraine, a survey showed Friday. In the survey of 1,000 people aged 18 or above conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday to Thursday, 72 percent said the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol should only [...]
SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — About 6,500 workers with disabilities legally earned less than the minimum wage last year, a report said Tuesday. The report from the Korea Labor and Society Institute found a total of 6,547 workers were excluded from the minimum wage rule as of August 2021. Their average monthly wage was [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 in 10 large South Korean companies are allowing their employees to work from home even after the government removed most anti-coronavirus curbs over a month ago, a poll showed Wednesday. The survey of the country’s leading 100 firms by sales, taken by the Korea Enterprises Federation [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 8 in 10 smaller food firms in South Korea have taken a hit from sky-high international grain prices caused by extreme weather events and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 213 small and medium-sized food firms showed 82.6 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — More than seven out of 10 South Koreans are in favor of giving medical assistance to North Korea struggling with a massive COVID-19 outbreak, a poll showed Friday. In a nationwide poll of 1,000 people aged 18 or above conducted by Gallup Korea from Tuesday to Thursday, 72 percent [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — More than eight out of 10 people who reported sexual harassment at the workplace said they suffered from some form of retaliation, a civic group reported Thursday. Gapjil 119, which campaigns against workplace abuses, announced its analysis of the 205 reports it received from abuse victims between January 2021 [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global tech behemoth Samsung Electronics Co. was ranked as the best-managed company among South Korea’s top 500 businesses in 2021 to retain the top spot for three years running, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. Samsung, the world’s top memory chip and smartphone maker, obtained 766.9 out of 800 points [...]