SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Women in their 40s and men in their 60s attend the most divorce counseling sessions out of all age groups, data released by a provider of free legal consultation services showed. The Korea Legal Aid Center for Family Relations reported that 59.8 percent of 73,432 counseling sessions conducted since [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Women hold 5.2 percent of executive positions at publicly listed companies in South Korea, the gender equality ministry said Thursday. According to a survey of 2,246 stock market-listed companies in the first quarter, only 1,668, or 5.2 percent, of the 32,005 executives were women, according to the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About a fifth of women with children up to sixth grade left their jobs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a poll showed Tuesday. The Korean Women’s Development Institute, a state-run think tank, said it conducted a survey on 722 such women from November to December and found that 21.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean women have suffered employment strains more than men amid the pandemic as job posts in the in-person service segment, hard hit by the virus outbreak, sharply eroded, a report showed Thursday. The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a severe blow to married women in the labor force, compared [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Most divorced Vietnamese immigrant women in South Korea bring back their children whom they sent to their home country after divorce once they achieve economic self-reliance, an analysis of data showed Tuesday. Choi Soo-ahn, a doctorate student in the Department of Multicultural Studies & Education at Inha University, said [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has again been thrown into a debate over whether women should be drafted into the military alongside men, with political and social circles calling for its serious consideration amid chronically low birth rates. One of the recent triggers was an online petition demanding female conscription on Cheong [...]
LOS ANGELES, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — WITI (Women in Technology International), the leading advocate for innovation, inclusivity and STEAM, is announcing 210 scholarships for Asian-Pacific (APAC) students to attend WITI’s 27th Global Summit. To honor the 80th birthday of WITI’s founder and Chairwoman, the Carolyn Leighton Scholarships cover the cost of 210 Summit attendance fees, totalling $52,500. The conference provides attendees [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean women investing in stocks has doubled over the past four years amid an equity investment craze, data showed Thursday. Asia’s fourth-largest economy had 3.88 million female stock investors as of the end of December last year, compared with 1.94 million four years earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Many female job seekers are being subject to cases of gender discrimination by employers. Gabjil 119, an advocacy group for workplace bullying victims, reported that there have been 559 cases of illegal activities reported to the Ministry of Employment and Labor since the employment law was amended in July [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of discouraged female workers in South Korea hit an all-time high in January due to a tough employment situation amid the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Monday. The country had 359,000 discouraged female workers in January, up 65.5 percent, or 142,000, from a year earlier and setting [...]