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Fever for Civil Service Exams Leads to Social and Economic Losses: Study

SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study suggests that policy is needed to reduce national losses from the high competition rate for civil service exams. According to a thesis published by Park Sung-jae, a senior fellow at the Korea Labor Institute, the number of Koreans preparing for state exams to recruit public servants shot [...]

More than Half of University Students and Workers Will Take Civil Service Exams This Year

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 [...]