SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea added the lowest number of additional jobs in nearly two years in January, with the growth slowing for the eighth consecutive month amid economic uncertainties and higher borrowing costs, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people stood at 27.36 million last month, up some 411,000 from [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. has announced plans to hire new factory workers for the first time in a decade, and the news has caused a stir among not just unemployed job seekers, but also public servants and those who already have stable jobs at state-run firms and large private companies. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 South Korean software developers regard salary as the most important factor when considering a job move, a survey showed Wednesday. According to a survey of 508 developers conducted by recruiting platform Wanted Lab, Inc., 82.3 percent of the respondents (multiple answers possible) picked salary as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mentions about job transfers and quitting jobs have increased in the last three years over the pandemic, a Seoul-based PR agency said Wednesday. KPR & Associates, Inc. conducted a big data study of 190,000 mentions about job transfers and resignations online, in which 132,000 mentions were made in 2022, [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Jobs in the public sector rose 2.6 percent on-year in 2021, data showed Thursday, as the government created more positions for vulnerable people amid the protracted pandemic. A total of 2.83 million people were employed in 2021 by the public sector, up 73,000 from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean employees working fewer than 15 hours a week reached a new high last year, a statistics agency said Thursday. Statistics Korea reported that there were 1,577,000 people working between one and 14 hours per week last year, an increase of 65,000 people from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported the largest job additions in more than 20 years in 2022, data showed Wednesday, as the country gradually returned to pre-pandemic normalcy. The number of employed people came to 28.08 million in 2022, up 816,000 from a year earlier, according to the data compiled by Statistics [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to reduce some 4 percent of jobs at state-run organizations by 2025, the finance ministry said Monday, in line with efforts to tighten its belt amid the economic slump. Under the plan, the country will eliminate 17,230 jobs at public organizations, according to the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s southern resort island of Jeju has greatly expanded its spending for job creation amid the accelerating exodus of young people. The Jeju provincial government said Wednesday it earmarked 5 billion won (US$3.91 million) for next year’s youth job project and will support jobs for 637 young adults. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — One in four students in South Korea have no future job preference, a survey showed Monday. The Ministry of Education and the Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education and Training conducted a nationwide survey of 22,702 elementary, middle and high school students, among which 19.3 percent of elementary school [...]