Number of Temporary Workers Inches Up in 2017

SEJONG, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of temporary workers in South Korea rose slightly this year from 2016, with its percentage also gaining ground, government data showed Friday. A total of 6.54 million workers were non-regular workers, part-timers and outsourced laborers as of August 2017, up 1.5 percent, or 98,000, from a year ago, according to the data by Statistics Korea. They accounted for 32.9 percent of the country’s salaried [...]