SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 80 percent of office workers experience health problems after starting work, according to a recent survey. The results can be interpreted as an indication that even healthy individuals get sick once they start work. According to the survey of 671 office workers conducted by the job portal [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of unemployed moms in South Korea want to find work to better cover living and education-related expenses for family members, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, 56.6 percent of the respondents said they want [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – An increasing number of 50- and 60-somethings in Korea are getting national qualifications for technical skills, as they seek out their second life. According to a press release from the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) on Aug. 29, 63,929 out of 677,686 technical qualification certificates were issued to test [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When it comes to part-time jobs, the quality of the work trumps everything, until it doesn’t. Online recruiter Albamon (“alba” means part-time work) conducted an informal survey by asking 4,711 job seekers to define the qualities that make a job a “god alba”. At 52.6 percent, “Fun work that I [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Four out of 10 job seekers in their 20s and 30s have prepared for state tests to become a civil servant, a poll showed Friday, a sign that government jobs are popular in South Korea amid growing job insecurity. The leading online job search portal JobKorea said its poll [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – A majority of Koreans were found to think “lowly” of their job. According to Saramin, a local job search platform, 52.3 percent of 1,504 surveyed respondents felt this way. The figure was the highest for employees in small and medium-sized enterprises (57.2 percent), followed by mid-sized companies (44.7 percent), [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The employment rate for women in their late 30s has reached its highest level in seven years, thanks to the widespread implementation of flextime scheduling. Flextime offers employees the freedom to choose their own workdays, and start and finish times. According to Statistics Korea Thursday, last month’s employment rate [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of self-employed South Koreans in their 30s has been on a steady rise since late last year as a prolonged economic slump forces more young people to set up one-man operations instead of finding jobs, a report showed Monday. According to the report by the Korea Labor [...]
SEJONG, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of women getting married without a job or while they were still students has declined sharply over the past 10 years. Experts say the phenomenon is caused by the bad economy, which forces both spouses to work for a living. According to Statistics Korea, 102,915 women got [...]
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 [...]