SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — When the novel coronavirus first arrived in South Korea a year ago, Bang Su (alias) didn’t know it would upend her career and family all of a sudden. The Pilates instructor worked less than two months last year as on-and-off social distancing measures restricted the operation of a sports [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Over a third of non-regular workers have experienced unemployment since the new coronavirus broke out in South Korea in January 2020, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey by Embrain Public conducted on 1,000 salaried workers aged between 19 and 55 on four occasions in April, June, September [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Concerns are growing about South Korea’s young people who are facing the risk of falling into what some are calling a ‘lost generation,’ as the prospects of a so-called job cliff are deepening due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Statistics Korea, the annual jobless rate of young people [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean logistics giant CJ Logistics Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will launch a new service that will offer jobs to the hearing-impaired. As part of its creating shared value (CSV) initiative, the company plans to launch the ‘Blue Parcel Delivery Service,’ in which a hearing-impaired will deliver [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of university graduates in their 20s and 30s who were both unemployed and not actively seeking work last month neared 200,000, a sharp increase from a year ago. Among the 2.4 million unemployed members of the labor force who abstained from job seeking activities last month, university [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost half of South Koreans either lost their jobs or saw their income fall due to the new coronavirus outbreak, a report showed Friday, in a sign that the job market remains sluggish amid the pandemic. The report by Statistics Korea showed that 49.7 percent of respondents said the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one out of four instructors at private institutes lost their jobs during the course of the new coronavirus pandemic, predominantly without unemployment benefits, a survey showed Monday. In an online survey on the effect of COVID-19 on 500 instructors released by Gabjil 119, a workers’ advocacy group, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of delivery workers are choosing to deliver parcels on foot, rather than using other means of transportation. Women, in particular, are tapping into the delivery business to earn money and get a bit of a work out at the same time. Neighborhood Delivery, a new on-foot [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Korean workers have borne the brunt of the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that first struck Asia’s fourth-largest economy in late January, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed South Koreans began to dwindle in March in the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19 as the flu-like [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea lost about 392,000 jobs in September, marking a decline in the number of the employed for the seventh consecutive month, as the coronavirus pandemic hammered job markets, data showed Friday. The country’s jobless rate rose by 0.5 percentage point on-year to 3.6 percent in September, with the [...]