SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – More than 1 in 6 South Korean married women suffered a career break this year as they quit their jobs due to child rearing and getting married, data showed Tuesday. The number of women aged 15-54 who have stopped working after marriage reached 1.45 million in April, down 3.8 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Men are more likely to feel socially isolated, while women are more prone to loneliness, according to a recent study conducted by one of the leading mental health experts in the nation. Led by psychiatry professor Hong Jin-pyo at Samsung Medical Center, a research team looked into the mental [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of female executives at South Korea’s top 100 firms increased in 2021 from a year earlier to surpass the 300 mark for the first time, data showed Wednesday. Those leading companies in Asia’s fourth-largest economy had a combined 322 women executives as of end-June this year, up [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their teens and 20s, especially women in their 20s, are increasingly committing suicide due primarily to anxiety and a sense of desperation. Statistics Korea reported that from 2010 to 2020, the number of individuals who committed suicide annually dropped by 15.2 percent from 15,566 people [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s online fashion platforms for women’s clothing are working on a number of initiatives, including free and fast delivery, to gain a larger market share. Ably plans to offer free returns for designer and street brand items by the end of this month. If customers return designer or [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Less than 30 percent of women here think South Korean society is safe as they are increasingly exposed to sex crimes and other violence, a government report showed. According to the report released by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family on Sunday, only 27.6 percent of women aged [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s female population is forecast to surpass that of males in nine years, a government report showed Sunday. The total number of women reached 25.86 million last year, accounting for 49.9 percent of the country’s entire population of 51.82 million, according to the report compiled by the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Male workers in listed firms in South Korea earned 1.6 times higher wages than their female colleagues last year, a government survey showed Thursday. Men were paid an average 79.8 million won (US$68,800) in 2020, while their women counterparts received 51.1 million won, according to the study on 2,149 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the growing voices for the establishment of gender-equal organization culture, the Seoul city government plans to expand the number of night shifts offered to female civil servants. At the Seoul Waterworks Authority, women will be encouraged to work the night shift. Night shifts require workers [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Women in their 20s are more likely to be active in social participation than men in the same age group, a government report showed Wednesday. The report released by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea also suggested young people who identify themselves as feminists are more likely to [...]