SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of unmotivated young adults deciding against preparing to get a job reached 500,000 last month, setting a new record high. Among all non-working individuals in the country, 497,000 young adults “rested” for the entire month of February, up by 9.9 percent from the previous year, according to [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — According to a recent survey conducted by business card management app Remember Remember and Korea Management Association Consulting, 83 percent of 1,000 Korean employees have considered changing jobs or leaving their current company. The survey, which was carried out in December last year, found that most respondents were from “MZ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added 597,000 jobs for wage workers in the third quarter of 2022, data showed Friday, led by higher demand from the welfare, construction and manufacturing sectors. The number of paying jobs came to 20.19 million in the July-September period, up from 19.59 million tallied a year earlier, [...]
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 [...]