SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. hired a few female employees for the production line, for the first time in its history. According to the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, out of the 185 production workers hired, six were women. Currently, the carmaker employs around 28,000 production workers, with approximately 500 being women. [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 36 percent of working women have experienced unwelcome comments on their physical appearance at the workplace, a survey showed Tuesday, indicating women are more frequently exposed to gender-based workplace violence than men. In the survey released by the pro-labor civic group Gabjil 119, 23.1 percent of respondents, [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Female workers account for nearly a quarter of all employees with major South Korean companies, with their pay amounting to nearly 70 percent of that for male counterparts, data showed Monday. The country’s 150 key companies hired about 199,700 women workers as of end-2020, or 24 percent of their [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top cosmetics maker AmorePacific Corp. has the highest ratio of female employees among major local firms, a corporate tracker said Thursday. AmorePacific had 8,117 female workers as of the end of December last year, which accounted for 74.8 percent of its total workforce at 10,800, according to [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of discouraged female workers in South Korea hit an all-time high in January due to a tough employment situation amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Monday. The country had 359,000 discouraged female workers in January, up 65.5 percent, or 142,000, from a year earlier and setting [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The appellate court reversed a lower court’s decision on a case where a working mom hired as a probationary employee was not taken on as a regular employee after refusing to work on weekends to take care of her children. Seoul High Court, in a case filed by a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Female workers working more than 70 hours per week are 1.7 times more likely to suffer a miscarriage than those who work fewer than 50 hours a week. A research team led by Prof. Lee Jun-hee from Soonchunhyang University Hospital Seoul and Prof. Lee Wan-hyung from Gachon University Gil [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s workforce continued to inch toward female workers, with the number of income earners and those employed in the service industry advancing to record highs, data from the Bank of Korea (BOK) showed Tuesday. As of end-2015, the total number of employed workers came to 23.83 million, up [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of female workers at South Korea’s 600 leading firms increased in the past five years, a local think tank said Monday. In an analysis of the top 600 listed companies in the nonfinancial sector, the Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) found the ratio of female employees out [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Over seven in 10 South Korean female job seekers in their 20s say they are okay with low wages as long as job security is provided, a recent report has found. In the collective survey conducted with the participation of 1,317 women out of employment by the Korean Women’s Development [...]