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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added jobs for the 21st straight month in November, but the growth continued to slow for the sixth month in a row amid the central bank’s aggressive monetary tightening, government data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people stood at 28.4 million last month, up some 626,000 [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added the largest number of jobs in five years last year on the back of the retail and welfare sectors, data showed Thursday. The country’s total jobs reached 25.58 million last year, up 850,000, or 3.5 percent, from the previous year, according to the data compiled by [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added 628,000 jobs for wage workers in the second quarter of 2022 amid the recovery of the services and construction sectors amid eased COVID-19 restrictions, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 20.2 million in the April-June period, up from 19.57 tallied a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Around 17 percent of South Korean women experienced a career break following their marriage this year, with child-rearing among the top reasons, data showed Tuesday. The number of women aged 15-54 who had stopped working after marriage had come to 1.39 million as of April, slightly down from 1.44 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Koreans, who typically prioritize work-life balance and have gotten used to online life, are avoiding the advertisement, PR and marketing industry. Online jobs portal Incruit showed that the job competition in the advertisement industry stood at 2.8 to 1 in 2018, after 24,128 applicants flocked to 8,761 job [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent spike in the number of seniors returning to the labor market reflects a deteriorating quality of life led by rising consumer prices, a central bank report said Monday. The Bank of Korea report said that the number of seniors over 60 years of age who got new [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — While the risk of cancer is rising among Koreans in their 20s and 30s, plans for returning to society after treatment are still lacking, a non-profit organization said Sunday. SWIMPYO surveyed 300 people in their 20s and 30s who had been treated for breast cancer, 90 percent of whom [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added jobs for the 19th straight month in September, data showed Friday, but the growth continued to slow for the fourth month in a row amid concerns over a recession. The number of employed people stood at 28.38 million last month, up 707,000 from a year earlier, [...]