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 [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Q2 economic activity rate (EAR) for Koreans in their twenties reached its highest level in a decade at 65.7 percent after peaking in Q4 2005 at 65.8 percent. The EAR represents the percentage of the population that constitutes the manpower supply of the labor market, both employed and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study by KRIVET (the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training) revealed that changing one’s first job as a college graduate may guarantee a more stable career with higher pay. According to KRIVET’s study, instability and low pay were the two major factors pushing employees to [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of people who have been unemployed for more than six months in South Korea rose to a record high in August amid a persistent economic slump, data showed Wednesday. A total of 182,000 South Koreans were jobless for six months or more as of August, up 62,000 [...]