SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans believe that establishing a social practice of resting when sick is important to prevent a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, a survey showed Monday. A survey conducted by a team led by Professor You Myoung-soon from Seoul National University’s Graduate School of Public Health included 1,000 Koreans aged [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — It has become mandatory for South Korean employers to provide adequate rest even to indoor workers during heat waves. The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced that an amendment to the subordinate ordinance of the Occupational Safety and Health Act will take effect from Wednesday. The existing provision No. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Expressway Corp. announced on Tuesday that it will expand the application of the ‘rest-mileage’ system introduced to encourage truckers to observe rest hours to 180 sites on eight routes. The system was introduced in May last year as a way to prevent drowsy driving among truckers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Many South Koreans plan to rest on Christmas, a recent study has revealed. A survey conducted by Incruit, a South Korean job portal, and Dooit Survey showed that 41 percent of all respondents planned to rest on Christmas day. Full-time homemakers wanted to take a rest on Christmas day [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Sometimes you just want to zone out and stay thoughtless for a while. But when some 70 people are sitting in one spot, all but spaced-out, there is something else going on. This is what happened Sunday by the Han River in Seoul. As it turned out, they were participants [...]