SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The average age of workers at small and mid-sized businesses (SMEs) is rising as the younger generation seeks jobs at bigger conglomerates for better pay and stability, a survey showed Friday. A study carried out from May to September last year on 8,000 SMEs said 25.6 percent of their [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – James Kim, president and CEO of GM Korea Co., apparently sought to eradicate what is believed to be widespread corruption among many employees and labor union leaders selling job openings, urging them to come clean without facing any consequences, company officials said Friday. In a recent e-mail addressed to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by Statistics Korea (Korea Social Trends 2016) showed that men had a higher level of satisfaction in their relationship with their spouse than women, for those in commuter marriages. Of the male respondents living apart from their partners, 64.5 percent said they were satisfied with their [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A majority of Koreans were found to think “lowly” of their job. According to Saramin, a local job search platform, 52.3 percent of 1,504 surveyed respondents felt this way. The figure was the highest for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (57.2 percent), followed by mid-sized companies (44.7 percent), [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study has shown that permanent employees with higher wages have a higher chance of marriage in Korean society, indicating that the country’s unstable job market with a high percentage of temporary positions (22.4 percent, 2013) is contributing to a low marriage rate and declining birthrate. According to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study from Statistics Korea revealed that the number of temporary employees aged 60 and above has more than doubled over the past decade, calling for government measures to provide aged workers with stable jobs to prevent elderly poverty. According to the study, there were 1,468,000 employees aged [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – One out of every two college students believe job market conditions have worsened this year, while more than half of would-be jobseekers said they wanted to work for a large firm or a public enterprise, a survey showed Monday. In the survey conducted by the Federation of Korean Industries [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s 10 biggest companies have contributed less to the nation’s employment sector, although their assets have grown, data showed Sunday. According to the data compiled by market researcher Chaebol.com, their assets totaled 1,144.4 trillion won (US$1,000 billion) last year. This accounts for 27.22 percent of all assets for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Marketing firm Innocean Worldwide’s latest big data analysis categorized the lifestyle of jobseekers into three keywords: relationship, relief, and location. The study was based on an analysis of some 600,000 social data records related to youth employment on online communities. According to Innocean, words related to study groups (for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of South Korea’s casual employees with no guaranteed hours of work reached a five-year high in the third quarter of this year, government data showed Monday, due to a rise in time-selective jobs amid a prolonged economic slump. The number of employees who work for one hour [...]