SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The floor leader of the People Power Party (PPP) announced his resignation Thursday, as the conservative party is reeling from a defeat in the presidential election earlier this week. Rep. Kweon Seong-dong told a meeting of party lawmakers at the National Assembly that he is resigning to take responsibility [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok tendered his resignation late Thursday just before the National Assembly reported a motion to impeach him. “Deputy Prime Minister Choi submitted his resignation at 10:28 p.m.,” the Ministry of Economy and Finance said in a press release. The impeachment motion, spearheaded by the main opposition [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that nearly one in three South Korean workers has either experienced or witnessed situations where employers pressure employees to resign voluntarily rather than formally terminate their employment. According to a survey conducted by Global Research on behalf of the workplace advocacy group Gabjil 119, 27% [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 7 out of 10 South Koreans agree that President Yoon Suk Yeol should step down immediately or be impeached over his martial law declaration, a survey showed Thursday. According to a survey by Realmeter on 507 people aged 18 or older conducted on Wednesday, 74.8 percent responded [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry on Friday ordered 221 training hospitals to ban mass leave and maintain essential medical personnel, as trainee doctors decided to submit their letters of collective resignations in protest of a plan to boost the number of medical students. The order came hours after trainee doctors of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Trainee doctors of five major general hospitals in Seoul have decided to submit their letters of resignation en masse Monday, in a move certain to intensify their strike threat over a plan to boost the number of medical students, a group of trainee doctors has said. Friday’s decision came [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mentions about job transfers and quitting jobs have increased in the last three years over the pandemic, a Seoul-based PR agency said Wednesday. KPR & Associates, Inc. conducted a big data study of 190,000 mentions about job transfers and resignations online, in which 132,000 mentions were made in 2022, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Monday its nominee for a new co-CEO, Ryu Young-joon, has offered to resign over controversial stock selloffs. Ryu, who has served as the chief of Kakao’s payment arm, Kakao Pay, was named to lead the tech giant [...]
BUSAN, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The mayor of Busan, South Korea’s largest port city, on Thursday resigned and apologized for sexual harassment. “In a short meeting that lasted five minutes, there was unnecessary physical contact with a person. I realized that this could be recognized as an indecent assault, (something) that should not have [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — In an unexpected move, Justice Minister Cho Kuk offered to resign Monday amid an ongoing probe into corruption allegations involving his family. “I judged I should not add a burden to the president and the government regarding my family affairs. I think the time has come for me to [...]