SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — About 78 percent of salaried workers support the 52-hour workweek that was introduced in 2018 to reduce long working hours, a labor ministry survey showed Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,300 people, 71 percent said the reduction of the maximum weekly working hours to 52 from 68 was [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — About 80 percent of salaried workers in South Korea support the expansion of flexible working hours, based on the recognition that the correlation between working hours and work performance is low, the country’s leading business lobby group said Wednesday. The Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) recently conducted [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a quarter of salaried workers in South Korea did not use their vacation time from August 2015 through July of last year, a report by a local culture and tourism organization said Monday. The findings, based on a survey of 4,357 people nationwide by the Korea Culture and [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A new report from the Korea Labor Institute (KLI) has revealed that around four in ten South Korean independent business owners and salaried workers earn less than 10 million won ($8,820) per year, well below the average annual income. Of nearly 26 million income earners in 2015, 38.4 percent made [...]