SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — According to convenience store industry watchers on Sunday, it has become almost impossible to find part-time work at convenience stores due to the increase in the minimum wage this year. With sales declining due to a sluggish economy and excessive competition, convenience store owners are having trouble paying part-time [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Two out of five South Koreans in their 20s and 30s said they wouldn’t mind working as a part-timer. Job Korea and Albamon, South Korea’s top two job search portals, conducted a survey on 1,200 people born between 1982 and 2000, asking them about their preference for full-time or [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When it comes to part-time jobs, the quality of the work trumps everything, until it doesn’t. Online recruiter Albamon (“alba” means part-time work) conducted an informal survey by asking 4,711 job seekers to define the qualities that make a job a “god alba”. At 52.6 percent, “Fun work that I [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Galleria Duty Free 63, a duty-free store run by Hanwha Galleria, said Thursday it has picked three part-timers who will get paid US$20,000 for one week of marketing and brand-advertising activities. Galleria Duty Free 63 put out the ad for the high-paid part-timers after fully opening its outlet in [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of Korean women in their 50s and 60s who work selective part-time jobs has increased in the past year. A selective part-time job is a form of a temporary employment that offers the complete benefits typically received by full-time employees, such as insurance and welfare, but gives [...]
SEOUL, Nov.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Research suggests that a decrease in working hours for Koreans, who currently work longer hours than almost anybody in the developed world, would lead to a drastic increase in the number of jobs created. At the Employment Impact Assessment Debate hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Severe youth unemployment is pushing unemployed university degree holders to the part-time job market. According to a report released by the Korea Research Institute for Vocation Education and Training (KRIVET) on May 28, 69 percent of unemployed university graduates have worked part-time jobs after their graduation. By gender, more women [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 28 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent survey, quite a number of Korean women seeking a job wants to be a part-timer rather than a full-timer. According to the survey conducted by FindJob, a job portal, asking 909 women aged of or more 25 on their job preference, 44.2 percent responded [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Students and young adults in every country have one or two experiences of part-time jobs during their summer vacations. There are some nice, comfortable, and worthwhile jobs but not all of us are that lucky. Here are two interesting survey results from two giants of Korean online job search portals, showing [...]