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S. Korea Issues Advisory Against Hiring N.K. IT Workers with Disguised Nationalities

SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Thursday issued an interagency advisory against the hiring of North Korean information technology (IT) workers with disguised nationalities amid reports that the country is using them as a source of foreign currency earnings. In the advisory, the foreign, unification and ICT ministries called on local companies [...]

Half of S. Korean IT Workers Have Experienced Highly Intense Labor Without Rest

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of the information technology (IT) workers in the Gyeonggi Province’s city of Seongnam, especially Pangyo district, the Korean version of Silicon Valley, turned out to have experienced highly intense labor. The city government conducted a survey of 1,627 wage workers and freelancers in IT within the [...]