SEJONG, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The proportion of temporary workers in South Korea fell below 38 percent of all salaried workers in August, data showed Tuesday, as the country gradually returns to pre-pandemic normalcy. Non-regular workers, including part-timers and outsourced laborers, took up 37.5 percent of the country’s 21.72 million salaried workers, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The unabated buying boom for luxury products has led to the emergence of new part-time jobs in which individuals are paid in return for waiting in line for entry to famous foreign luxury brand shops on behalf of customers. Customers who want to purchase luxury products can hire such [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Koreans who are stuck in part-time jobs despite wanting to work full-time is estimated to have exceeded 1.2 million. According to data from Statistics Korea, the number of individuals who work less than 36 hours a week reached approximately 5.9 million last month, up 16.6 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that teenagers that have worked at a part-time job have a higher smoking experience rate than those who have not worked at a part-time job. A research team from the Yonsei University Graduate School of Public Health analyzed 62,276 teenagers based on data from 2017 [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of part-time workers in South Korea grew at the fastest clip among major economies over the past decade since the global financial crisis due largely to increased labor costs, a report showed Monday. The number of South Koreans working fewer than 30 hours per week came to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — It is expected that part-timers will be able to write work contracts on their smartphones in the future. This is a measure to protect teenage part-time workers from the harm and damage they might be subject to for not signing a contract. The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Slightly over 1 in 5 part-timers in South Korea receive less hourly pay than the nation’s minimum wage, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey of 5,654 part-time workers taken by Albamon, a recruitment website for part-timers, 21.2 percent of the respondents said their hourly wage hovers below [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose slightly this year from a year earlier, with the percentage of such employment also rising, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 6.61 million workers were non-regular workers, part-timers or outsourced laborers as of August 2018, up 36,000 from a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – McDonald’s Korea’s Mangwon branch had its franchise contract with the fast food company terminated on December 1 of last year. According to McDonald’s, the owner of concern had been failing to fulfill the terms of agreement, including paying the company franchise commissions amounting to a total of about 700 [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean part-time workers saw their hourly wage jump more than 11 percent on-year in the first quarter to exceed the legal floor of 5,580 won (US$5.19), a poll showed Monday. The average hourly wage of part-timers came to 6,910 won in the January-March period, up 11.3 percent from [...]