SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Most retired seniors apply for security guard positions to sustain their livelihood. This is largely because it is difficult for a job seeker over the age of 60 to find a decent job with a decent career portfolio. Gapjil 119, a civic group dedicated to stamping out power abuse [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy surrounding the removal of a memorial banner has shed light on the issue of workplace bullying and classism in South Korean society. The banner, which was hung at an apartment complex in Seoul to commemorate a security guard who took his own life due to workplace abuse, was [...]
GWANGJU, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Being employed as an apartment security guard is probably among the worst jobs to have in Korea, not because the work itself is particularly demanding, but because of the verbal, or sometimes even physical abuse that guards have to endure. In a recent survey by Gwangju’s Contingent Workers Support [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of incidents, including a massive round of dismissals and the suicide of a janitor at a posh apartment complex, have forced the Ministry of Employment and Labor to come up with countermeasures to protect security guards working at apartments nationwide under mostly poor working conditions. Starting next year, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Seventy eight security guards working at an apartment in posh Apgujeong-dong, southern Seoul, where a janitor set himself on fire due to mistreatment by a mean resident, are in danger of being fired. All of them got pre-notice of discharge on November 19 and 20. It is suspected to [...]
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SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s non-regular workers are hopeless to become a permanent employee. The latest OECD Employment Outlook 2014 showed that one to two contract workers out of ten can win a permanent status in a year. Seven are still under fixed-term contracts and even two become unemployed. It means that the [...]