SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – As cherry blossom season arrives in South Korea, an assortment of online posts have appeared seeking to hire companions to join in the annual festivities of viewing the blooming flowers. One such listing on a secondhand trading site offered 70,000 won for a four-hour stint from 2 p.m. to 6 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In a bold move to bolster its future global competitiveness, Hyundai Motor Group has announced a large-scale domestic hiring and investment initiative. Over the next three years, the automotive giant plans to recruit 80,000 new employees in South Korea and invest a staggering 68 trillion won. Hyundai’s production workers, known [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), one of South Korea’s largest state-run companies, is breaking new ground by deploying artificial intelligence to assist in identifying and recommending talent for key leadership positions. The power utility has developed an “AI-based talent recommendation system” that taps HR and job performance data to [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of employees aged 50 and over exceeded that of those under 30 at South Korea’s major companies after the outbreak of the coronavirus, primarily due to the decline in new hires, data showed Thursday. The nation’s 72 major companies published their 2021 sustainability management reports, of which [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has opened the way for municipal governments to beef up the number of local public servants in case national disasters like COVID-19 pandemic occur. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Tuesday, the government held a Cabinet meeting and passed a partial revision of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Korean companies are hiring online as the pandemic drags on. Online job search portal JobKorea conducted a survey of 365 South Korean businesses, 67.1 percent of whom responded that they are ‘hiring online.’ Among them, 80.4 percent of large businesses have introduced online hiring programs. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major companies increased their hiring of new employees in the first half of the year despite the coronavirus pandemic, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. According to CEO Score, 460 out of the country’s top 500 firms by sales had a combined workforce of 1,503,643 as of end-June, [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — As the job market continues to deteriorate, both employers and employees were found to have a high level of mistrust in hiring practices, a survey showed Monday. Recruiting platform Saramin conducted a survey of 1,210 job seekers, 51.6 percent of whom had doubts about the fairness of the hiring [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conglomerates appear to be gradually changing their recruitment methods in favor of experienced workers and year-round recruitment of new employees. A public organization said Wednesday that major domestic companies are planning to fill about 40 percent of their new job openings with experienced workers, as opposed to [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major companies reduced their hiring of new employees in 2020 in an effort to cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. According to CEO Score, 497 out of the country’s top 500 firms by sales newly hired 264,901 workers last year, down 5,902 [...]