SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Half of those in their 20s and 30s want to be “job-hoppers” rather than settle into a routine life. Job-hopping refers to the act of seeking a different job every two to three years for a higher salary or to improve one’s career prospects. According to a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Foreigners’ favorable feelings toward South Korean cultural content marked an overall improvement last year on the strength of the continued popularity of “hallyu,” or the Korean Wave, according to a poll released Saturday by a government agency. The survey of 8,000 people in 17 countries who experienced Korean cultural [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — About one out of five North Korean defectors experienced discrimination in South Korea last year mostly due to “cultural” differences, a survey showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted by the Hana Foundation, a state-run agency that helps resettlement of North Korean defectors, 17.2 percent of 3,000 defectors polled [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past two years, a growing number of South Korean businesses have introduced so-called ‘blind recruiting’ practices, where companies hire employees without being informed of their academic, geographic, and gender information. Saramin, an online job portal, conducted a survey of 821 companies, 31.5 percent of which said they [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly half of North Korean defectors had experience of engaging in private-sector economic activities back in the communist nation, a poll showed Thursday. According to the poll conducted by the Korean Association of North Korean Studies and Hyundai Research Institute on North Korean defectors, 48 percent said that they [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 25 percent of people who recently earned a Ph.D. in South Korea are unemployed, a recent survey revealed. However, the proportion of graduates who receive relatively high annual salaries has increased slightly. According to a survey conducted by Statistics Korea, of 9,313 new Ph.D. holders in 2019, 25.2 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean office workers experience switch jobs 2.5 times on average during their career, a recent report has showed. Among East Asian countries, in particular, South Koreans had the highest willingness to work abroad. Global human resource consulting firm PersolKelly Consulting on Wednesday announced the results of its “APAC Workforce [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — About one in three South Korean students sees the Korean Peninsula as not peaceful, a government poll showed Tuesday, apparently reflecting chilled inter-Korean relations and stalemated denuclearization talks. According to the survey of 66,042 students at 598 elementary, middle and high schools across the country during the October-November period [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly two thirds of South Koreans do not trust the South Korean Protestant Church or its pastors, a recent study has revealed. The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 citizens, 63.9 percent of whom said they don’t trust the South Korean Protestant Church. Only 31.8 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A vast majority of South Korean office workers are worried that their company could go belly up, a recent survey has revealed. According to a survey of 315 workers by job portal CareerNet Corp., 75.9 percent of the respondents said they were worried about their employer going bankrupt. When [...]