SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Salaried employees in South Korea work for 8.05 hours on average per work day and take an average of 8.25 days off per month, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,000 workers aged between 19 and 55 by local pollster Embrain Public, 811 respondents said they [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — About eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, approximately 4 in 10 salaried employees in South Korea suffered a decline in their incomes and an increase in depression, while over 15 percent of them either lost or quit their jobs, a poll showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,000 [...]
SEJONG, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of temporary workers in South Korea has risen 13.1 percent on-year this year, with the percentage of such employment also increasing, government data showed Tuesday. A total of 7.48 million workers were nonregular workers, part-timers or outsourced laborers as of August 2019, up about 870,000 from a [...]