SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More people are breaking traditional social preference for office jobs to work in the blue-collar sector. A YouTube video by a 20-year-old South Korean female forklift operator working in Australia via the working holiday program has recently gone viral as she has been earning 5 million won (US$4,200) per [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of jobs for wage workers in South Korea expanded nearly 4 percent in the second quarter amid signs of the economy’s recovery from the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs had reached 19.6 million as of the end of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 1 in 6 South Korean married women suffered a career break this year as they quit their jobs due to child rearing and getting married, data showed Tuesday. The number of women aged 15-54 who have stopped working after marriage reached 1.45 million in April, down 3.8 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Large South Korean companies have cut their combined workforce by more than 1 percent over the past two years amid the coronavirus pandemic, a corporate tracker said Tuesday. The number of workers hired by 313 out of the country’s top 500 firms by sales came to 1.24 million as [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — A new report shows that the number of involuntary retirees caused by the ‘COVID-19 recession’ has been on the rise, heightening uncertainty and anxiety over life after retirement in a society where achieving retirement security is increasingly elusive among older workers. More than 70 percent of respondents over 40 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A survey showed that South Korea’s MZ generation workers, those in the their 20s and 30s, are putting more emphasis on annual salary rather than corporate value or job security when choosing a job. Recruiting platform Saramin conducted a survey of 1,865 workers in their 20s and 30s on [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the sixth straight month in August, but the growth pace slowed as employment at in-person service sectors was hit by the fourth wave of the pandemic, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people reached 27.6 million last month, 518,000 more than a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has earmarked a record budget of 31.3 trillion won (US$26.8 billion) in next year’s state budget to create new public sector jobs and offer subsidies for private companies hiring underprivileged youths, according to officials Tuesday. The envisioned budget for job creation represents a 4 percent increase from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of jobs for wage workers in South Korea grew at a slower pace in the first quarter than three months earlier due to slumps in in-person service sectors amid the pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of paid employee jobs reached 18.9 million in the cited period, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea reported job additions for the fifth straight month in July, but the growth pace slowed as employment in face-to-face service segments was hit hard by the fourth wave of the pandemic, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people reached 27.65 million last month, 542,000 more than [...]