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 [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of older adults in Seoul have no experience using digital kiosks, a survey showed Monday, despite a rising number of businesses adopting such self-service electronic machines amid the pandemic. The poll released by the Seoul Digital Foundation, a digital arm of the city government, showed 45.8 percent of [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of single 20-somethings in South Korea do not want to have babies after marriage due apparently to concerns over high child-rearing costs in the country, a poll showed Monday. According to a survey reported in a monthly economic journal by the state-run Korea Development Institute, 52.4 [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 1 in 5 children in South Korea said they are unhappy, citing pressure to do well at school as the biggest reason, a survey showed Thursday, as the country marked Children’s Day. According to the poll conducted by the health ministry and the National Center for the Rights [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans oppose granting a pardon to former President Lee Myung-bak, a poll showed Monday, amid rising speculation outgoing President Moon Jae-in may use his clemency powers to set Lee free before he leaves office. The Korea Society Opinion Institute survey of 1,012 adults, conducted [...]