SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean workers have mixed feelings about the 52-hour maximum workweek due to effect next month as it could help improve productivity but reduce income, a survey by a local employment portal site showed Monday. In a recent survey of 905 workers at companies with more than 300 employees, [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans gave an average score of 6.4 on a 0 to 10 scale for the level of satisfaction with their quality life, a government survey showed Monday. Hankook Research conducted the inaugural survey from May 15-21 after being commissioned by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. 1,500 adult [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 Koreans are unable to see eye-to-eye with conscientious objectors who refuse to carry out military service, according to a survey commissioned by the Korean Association of Church Communication (KACC) and performed by Gallup Korea. Of the respondents, 68 percent answered that they were unable to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a quarter of South Koreans have used mobile payment services as increasing numbers of people use mobile devices to pay for goods and services in one of the world’s most wired countries, a poll showed Monday. The survey of 2,500 adults, conducted by the Bank of Korea [...]
TROY, Mich., Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — New research from Kelly Services® provides insight into why companies hire gig workers and what the most innovative among them do differently from their peers. Surveying 2,100 talent managers worldwide—across industries and career disciplines—global workforce solutions provider, Kelly Services, uncovered new insights about gig adoption rates, the outlook [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — About 46 percent of Seoul residents in their 20s and 30s identify as progressive, nearly three times those leaning conservative, a survey showed Saturday. Seoul Institute, which is funded by the city government, unveiled the results of its recent survey of 1,000 citizens in those age groups about their [...]
MAHWAH, N.J., Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Radware® (NASDAQ:RDWR), a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released a new study today titled Radware Research: Web Application Security in a Digitally Connected World. The report takes an in-depth look into how organizations protect their web applications, and identifies clear gaps in security among [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is set to resume work on two nuclear reactors on the southeastern coast after a three-month hiatus, as a state commission gave the green light to complete construction Friday and which is expected to affect the government’s nuclear phase-out plan. The construction of the Shin Kori-5 and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — When it comes to part-time jobs, the quality of the work trumps everything, until it doesn’t. Online recruiter Albamon (“alba” means part-time work) conducted an informal survey by asking 4,711 job seekers to define the qualities that make a job a “god alba”. At 52.6 percent, “Fun work that I [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people in South Korea with financial assets worth more than 1 billion won (US$892,295) rose 14.8 percent on year to 242,000 last year, thanks to the robust stock market, a report showed Tuesday. According to the annual survey by KB Financial Group Inc.’s research institute, people [...]