SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of deliver workers has fallen this year following a sharp growth in recent years amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while that of cooks rose to an all-time high as people returned to pre-pandemic normalcy, data showed Tuesday. The number of delivery workers fell by 24,000 during the January-June [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – A delivery worker employed by South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. has claimed that he was penalized for releasing videos of a poor working environment to the public. Cheon Min-ho, who has been working for the company for almost a year, appeared on an MBC radio talk show on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A parcel delivery worker died while on duty this week, the latest in a series of couriers’ deaths largely blamed on overwork amid an industry boom due to the coronavirus. An advocacy group said Thursday that Kang Doo-han, 39, who was contracted with CJ Logistics, collapsed at a hub [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A contract parcel delivery worker employed by the logistics company Hanjin Express died recently, a delivery workers’ collective said Monday, arguing that an unbearable workload caused his death. The 36-year-old worker, whose surname was Kim and worked at a company branch in the central Seoul ward of Dongdaemun, was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Another delivery worker recently died while working, an umbrella union said Sunday, demanding safety measures for workers in the rigorous industry. A 48-year-old delivery worker, associated with CJ Logistics Corp., was sent to the hospital after reporting breathing difficulty Thursday evening but passed away, according to the Korean Confederation [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean online shopping giant Coupang is facing criticism over massive staff cuts in the wake of allegations of labor rights abuses that emerged yesterday. Coupang is widely known for its next day delivery service dubbed “Rocket Delivery”, but despite the popular policy that ships all items ordered before midnight [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Korea Express, a parcel shipping company, announced that it would use 64,000 senior community centers around the country as logistics centers and employ senior citizens as parcel delivery workers. CJ Korea Express, the Korea Senior Citizens Association, the Korea Integrated Logistics Association and Saenuri Party member Yi Wan-Young’s [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea boasts its best packages delivery service, unmatched by any other nation in the world. Korean consumers can receive goods purchased online within just a day and this speedy delivery system is largerly credited to the committed efforts made by the local delivery worker – estimated at about 45,000-strong manpower in the nation. For the [...]