SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean unit of Apple Inc. employs 500 workers and has helped create more than 300,000 jobs here over the past 20 years, according to its website Monday. It marks the first time since the U.S. tech giant’s entry into South Korea in 1998 that the company has [...]
SEJONG, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of young South Koreans are preparing for state exams for public jobs and professional licenses, data showed Tuesday. The data released by Statistics Korea showed that 714,000, or 15.3 percent, of 4.68 million economically inactive youths aged 15-29 prepared for state exams in May, up 2.2 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Men in managerial and specialized jobs in South Korea and Japan have a higher mortality rate than in Europe, a study found. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo and Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands published the study in the online edition of the Journal of [...]
SEOUL, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of ten jobs are more than 70 percent likely to be replaced by job automation due to technological advances. According to a report released by the Korea Information Society Development Institute on Monday, 32 percent of the jobs have a 70 percent chance of being replaced by [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Individuals between the ages of 30 and 54, typically known as the principal breadwinners in South Korean society, are participating less in economic activities. This trend raises concerns that this disruption to the labor market could develop into a serious social issue which may negatively impact South Korea’s overall [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Just over 1 in 5 married women in South Korea stopped working due to marriage, having children and taking care of them, and other family-related obligations, data showed Thursday. According to the data by Statistics Korea, the number of women who gave up their jobs due to marriage and [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Looking ahead to 2018, chief among South Koreans’ worries and hopes for the new year is employment. Two out of three respondents in a survey regarding next year’s economic policy conducted by the Korea Development Institute were most concerned about future employment. A total of 1,000 civilians and 334 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Only 53.6 percent of 1,600 youth between the ages of 18 to 34 were in agreement with the statement “we can get better jobs than those of our parents’ generation” in a Ministry of Employment and Labor study on young peoples’ beliefs regarding employment policies. Anxiety over future job [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education announced that students from select schools will be able to participate in GEPIK (Gyeonggido English Program in Korea), a “Phone English” service starting September 1. The program will be for 288 elementary school students from grade four to six and will be offered [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of employees working for local governments has exceeded 300,000 for the first time, topping 303,401 as of end of last year, announced the Ministry of the Interior on Monday. South Korea first adopted regional municipalities in 1995, when local governments hired 277,387 employees. The number of firefighters [...]