SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added more than 300,000 jobs for the second consecutive month in February led by solid job growth in the manufacturing sector amid rising exports, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.04 million last month, up 329,000 from a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent revelation by the civic organization Gabjil 119 has shed light on the troubling practice of alleged “blacklists” created by companies, which reportedly hinder former employees’ efforts to secure new employment. One individual shared their ordeal of being threatened by their team leader with a ruined industry reputation after [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study in South Korea has shed light on the contrasting job preferences of the country’s youth and senior citizens, revealing a generational divide in workplace priorities. The study, conducted by the Gyeonggi Research Institute in August and involving 1,000 residents of Gyeonggi Province, has been compiled into a [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of young South Koreans preparing for exams for public jobs and professional licenses has fallen for the second year in a row, data showed Tuesday. Some 634,000 people out of 4.16 million economically inactive people aged 15-29 have been preparing for exams to land jobs this year, [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) — In the domestic job market, the most popular job category turned out to be IT development, data showed Monday. According to an analysis of talent pool data by recruiting platform Saramin, the number of job offers in the first half of this year showed a 7.9 percent increase compared [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The values that millennials and Generation Z prioritize the most when selecting a job are shifting from one’s potential for growth to wages and working hours, a think tank report said Thursday. The Korea Institute for Industrial Economics & Trade analyzed 104,511 college graduates from 2008 to 2019 using [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unemployment rate hit an all-time low last month, but the pace of job growth slowed down for the third month in a row amid economic uncertainties, data showed Friday. The number of employed people stood at 28.41 million in August, up 807,000 from a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the 14th consecutive month in April as economic recovery momentum has been extended despite heightened global uncertainty, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.08 million last month, up 865,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported the largest job growth in more than seven years in September in the latest sign that the country’s job recovery has continued despite the fourth wave of the pandemic, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people reached 27.68 million last month, 671,000 more than a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — 7 out of 10 South Korean young adults feel it will become more difficult to get a job at the company of their choice in the future, a local think tank said Sunday. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) conducted a survey of 542 young adults between the ages [...]