SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has emphasized an appropriate dress code for its citizens to protect the ideology and culture of socialism as well as to prevent the loosening of social atmosphere. The Rodong Sinmun, an organ of the North’s ruling Worker’s Party, recently stressed that it was important for the citizens [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty-two schools in Seoul that had regulations on the colors and the shapes of students’ underwear removed such rules amid criticism they violate the human rights of students, the city’s education office said Wednesday. The schools, including 31 girls’ middle and high schools, as well as 21 coeducation schools, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean central bank officially abolished its dress code at the start of the new year, a move aimed at revamping its conservative and rigid organizational culture. On Monday, the first work day of the new year, it was not hard to find Bank of Korea (BOK) employees wearing sweaters, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korean finance and investment companies are going beyond preferring suits and ties to allow employees to wear the clothes of their choice. Many finance firms are introducing the new policy to reflect the fact that taking off a tie helps to drop perceived body [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A man who has been working for many years as a delivery person at McDonald’s covered his face up by wearing a helmet, sunglasses and a face mask to protest against the American fast food chain’s dress code policy of requiring workers to wear jeans while on duty, at [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Intern Resident Association expressed deep concerns Tuesday over a dress and appearance manual for doctors that is currently being developed at the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital. According to the KIRA, articles in the manual specific to female doctors include wearing “vibrant makeup” because [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea’s No. 2 air carrier, has filed a lawsuit to reverse an administrative decision ordering it to compensate a pilot who was grounded after refusing to shave his beard, industry sources said Wednesday. The lawsuit lodged with the Seoul Administrative Court calls for the National [...]