SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of unemployed college graduates in South Korea hit a record in the second quarter amid tightened job markets for young adults, government data showed Saturday. The number of jobless people with a bachelor’s degree and above reached 546,000 in the April-June period, up 11.8 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 10 percent of full-time workers in South Korea consider themselves as nonregular employees because of poor working conditions, a report said Monday. According to the report by the Korea Labor Institute, 10.7 percent of South Korea’s regular workers believe they are temporary employees owing to long work [...]
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 [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of college graduates in South Korea remain jobless through their late 20s, attributing to the record high youth unemployment rate last month, data showed Sunday. Out of 114,000 people who had stayed jobless for more than four weeks in February, 80,000, or 70.2 percent, were aged [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – As the years pass, young people who seek jobs are finding the process more and more difficult. Alba Heaven, a portal site for classified ads, conducted a survey on 1,792 job seekers in their 20s and 30s. The results showed that 7 out of 10 people (66.6 percent) felt [...]
Seoul, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Unemployment is increasing, even though most are trying hard to find a job. One out of ten people are remaining jobless for over six months, despite the efforts they make to get a job. Experts see the phenomenon resulting from an increase in the number of people wanting to [...]
GWANGJU, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The gruesome end met by a missing job seeker is making waves in Korean society. Bones from a body hanging from a tree were found by a resident in a secluded part of a park in Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju on April 11. According to a police statement, the bones belonged to [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey, Korean job seekers consider “proximity” as the most important factor when choosing a job, rather than salary or field of work. Flea Market Korea, an online job search portal, and Gallup Korea conducted the survey interviewing 500 job seekers in their 20s to 60s [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – It turns out that a large number of corporate officials, who have participated as examining panels in recruiting process including document screenings and interviews, are not satisfied with their company’s hiring system. According to a survey of 235 business officials, who have taken part in the hiring process, conducted [...]
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