South Korea nurses Archives

Doctors’ Average Monthly Wage 13M Won, 4.6 Times Full-Time Laborer

SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A study conducted by the Ministry of Health and Welfare has found that the average monthly wage of South Korean physicians was 13.04 million won in 2016, an amount 4.6 times and 8.7 times higher than the average monthly salaries of full-time laborers (2.79 million won) and non-regular workers [...]

Working Environment of Nurses Rife with Problems

SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – In a fact-finding study conducted from December through January by the Korean Nurses Association, 69.5 percent of the 7,275 nurses interviewed said they had experienced human rights violations from employment law infractions at work. Nurses frequently reported being coerced into carrying out duties they did not feel comfortable with [...]