SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare moment of emotional candor for the K-pop industry, Hanni (Phạm Ngọc Hân), a 20-year-old member of the popular girl group NewJeans, testified before a National Assembly committee about her experiences with workplace bullying and isolation, drawing international attention to labor practices in South Korea’s entertainment sector. Hanni’s [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey by a civic group has revealed that only 1 in 10 victims of workplace bullying in South Korea report the incidents to their company, labor union, or the Ministry of Employment and Labor. The findings come as the amended Labor Standards Act, which prohibits workplace bullying, approaches [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Seven out of 10 South Korean workers who reported suffering in their jobs said they had been victims of bullying, violence or other abusive behavior, according to an analysis by a civic group that spotlights workplace injustices. The Seoul-based organization Gabjil 119 said on April 29 that of the 407 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The education ministry opened a hotline on Tuesday to protect medical students wanting to return to classes from peer bullying from other students boycotting classes in protest of the government’s increase of the medical school quota. The move came amid reported cases of medical students unwillingly joining the ongoing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting from the new school year, cases of school violence in Seoul’s elementary, middle, and high schools will no longer be handled by teachers but by specialized ‘school violence investigators’. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education announced that from March 2, when incidents of school violence are reported, these dedicated [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey, workplace bullying and other harassment are considered the most difficult internal grievances to resolve in South Korean workplaces. The Central Labor Commission (CLC) shared these findings in the winter issue of its labor dispute resolution guidebook, “Conciliation and Judgment,” published on December 25. The survey, [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) —The use of the virtual world known as the metaverse has been proposed as a potential tool to alleviate the psychological strain on students subjected to school violence during police investigations, according to a recent publication titled “Police Investigation of School Violence Victims Using Metaverse,” featured in the journal Police [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy surrounding the removal of a memorial banner has shed light on the issue of workplace bullying and classism in South Korean society. The banner, which was hung at an apartment complex in Seoul to commemorate a security guard who took his own life due to workplace abuse, was [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Police launched an investigation Wednesday into an alleged case of bullying that happened at the Central Police Academy in Chungju, 105 kilometers south of Seoul. The National Police Agency said that it will conduct an overall investigation to verify if the case was caused by structural problems, without giving [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) –A study released on Saturday revealed that more than 1 in 10 college students who were victims of childhood bullying went on to attempt suicide in early adulthood, which is more than double the rate of students who did not experience bullying. The study also suggests that the effects of [...]