CHANGWON, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — With the imminent start of the Jinhae Gunhangje in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, local government employees in charge of operating the festival are expressing frustration. Jinhae Gunhangje, or the Jinhae Naval Port Festival, is held annually for about 10 days in early April in Jinhae Ward in Changwon amid [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The once sought-after job of working as a government employee is losing popularity due to stagnant wages and an overhaul of the pension system. The Ministry of Personnel Management recently received applications for the state exam to recruit grade 9 public servants. A total of 121,526 people applied for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Anyone who has been fined for distributing pornography online will be prevented from becoming a government employee for three years, just like other individuals who are convicted of crimes of sexual violence, the government said Wednesday. The Ministry of Personnel Management announced that a newly revised act on government [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study suggests that policy is needed to reduce national losses from the high competition rate for civil service exams. According to a thesis published by Park Sung-jae, a senior fellow at the Korea Labor Institute, the number of Koreans preparing for state exams to recruit public servants shot [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Dongdaemun District Office in Seoul has announced the introduction of a ‘wearable cam’ to protect public servants in charge of civil affairs from malicious petitioners’ abusive language and violence. Wearable cams are wearable video recording devices that are used to record on-site situations by police officers and firefighters. [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — After the presidential transition team confirmed plans to raise soldiers’ monthly salary to 2 million won (US$1,574), a group of low-ranking public servants made a strong appeal to improve their labor conditions. “All of the nation’s public servants work hard and have tough times today due to COVID-19,” said [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has opened the way for municipal governments to beef up the number of local public servants in case national disasters like COVID-19 pandemic occur. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Tuesday, the government held a Cabinet meeting and passed a partial revision of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has decided to allow public servants working for the central government or municipal governments to use laptops for work. The nation’s public servants have been prohibited from using laptops for work thus far to prevent confidential administrative information from being leaked. At administrative offices, they were encouraged [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of married women are simultaneously engaged in child-rearing, homemaking, and studying for government employee examinations. An online study forum for government employee exams, with more than 350,000 members, has over 160 related posts written by female students. Most of them are women who had to suspend [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Government officials and public employees involved in real estate affairs will be required to register their assets with the authorities, the Ministry of Personnel Management said Sunday. The ministry last week preannounced the latest revision to the enforcement ordinance of the Public Service Ethics Act. The new rules will [...]