SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s leading food delivery platform, Baemin, has announced that its delivery riders working over 40 hours per week earned an average monthly income of 3.93 million won from January to April this year. This figure represents a notable increase of 400,000 won (11.3%) compared to the same period in [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Prioritizing efficiency, which involves saving even a few seconds, is becoming a new trend among Generation MZ, a Korean portmanteau for millennials and Gen Z. Park, a 31-year-old office worker, enjoys watching YouTube videos that provide 10-minute summaries of films or television shows. “There are numerous things to watch, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Outward expansion of South Korea’s research and development (R&D) has not led to meaningful improvements in productivity, raising the need to boost the effectiveness of related investments, official data showed Monday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy ranked No. 6 in R&D investment in 2013, but it still suffered from a chronic [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey revealed that a time of the day between 10 am to 3 pm is the most preferred time for married women to partake in economic activity. According to Findjob, Korea’s online job search portal, which conducted a survey on 1,760 female job seekers who were older [...]