SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that three out of four salaried people in their 30s and 40s are worrying about losing their job due to the deterioration of the business environment resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. JobKorea, a job portal site in South Korea, carried out a survey of [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of office workers give up quitting their job because they are worried about the situation that awaits them after they quit, a poll showed Wednesday. JobKorea, an online search portal, conducted a survey of 2,928 office workers who had made up their mind to quit their job, [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Large companies in South Korea have trimmed more than 10,000 jobs over the past two months in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. According to CEO Score, 492 out of the country’s top 500 firms by sales had a combined 1,644,868 employees subscribing to [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Millennial job seekers prefer companies where they can engage in tasks they like, rather than companies offering a high annual salary. JobKorea, a local job search portal, conducted a survey of 790 job seekers born between 1980 and the 2000s, 41.9 percent of whom said they want to work [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the past two years, a growing number of South Korean businesses have introduced so-called ‘blind recruiting’ practices, where companies hire employees without being informed of their academic, geographic, and gender information. Saramin, an online job portal, conducted a survey of 821 companies, 31.5 percent of which said they [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Korean job seekers want career experiences overseas, a recent study revealed. Saramin, an online job search platform, conducted a survey of 3,545 adults, 55 percent of whom said they wanted to work overseas. More male respondents (60.5 percent) wanted to work overseas than women [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean office workers experience switch jobs 2.5 times on average during their career, a recent report has showed. Among East Asian countries, in particular, South Koreans had the highest willingness to work abroad. Global human resource consulting firm PersolKelly Consulting on Wednesday announced the results of its “APAC Workforce [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — More than six out of every ten South Koreans continue to work after retirement, which is high compared to other developed countries. The Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) conducted an online survey in September last year of 1,000 people with voting rights in 16 countries, including South Korea, the [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans have long joked that the nation’s unofficial retirement age is 45. Since the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis forced South Korea to receive an emergency bailout loan from the International Monetary Fund in return for a painful restructuring of its banks and corporate sectors, middle-aged workers here have [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ OliveNetworks is the company that created the most jobs in the past five years among affiliates of the top 30 South Korean conglomerates. The Korea Economic Research Institute analyzed the number of employees at affiliates with more than 300 employees at the top 30 conglomerates between 2013 and [...]