SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly 40 percent of college students and office workers plan to take civil service exams this year, a recent report showed. JobKorea, the operator of a job search portal, and Albamon, a recruitment website for part-timers, jointly conducted a survey of 2201 university students and workers in their 20s [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — In the future, civil servants who do personal broadcasting on the Internet, such as videos uploaded to YouTube, must apply for a concurrent job permit with their agency if they meet certain profit requirements. The Ministry of Personnel Management prepared and unveiled “standard guidelines” including such information on Monday, [...]
CHUNCHEON, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Rising demand for social welfare services is placing civil servants at the risk of depression and suicidal impulses due to an excessive workload and overwhelming stress. The Gangwon Provincial Health Center recently conducted a mental health survey on 767 government employees in Gangwon Province, 13.6 percent of whom said [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 40 percent of workers at public institutions based in provincial cities in South Korea live away from their families, a report said Tuesday, while calling for measures to help more live with their families. A decade ago, South Korea designated 10 “innovation cities” across the nation and relocated [...]