SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — While the importance of work-life balance has emerged and the tendency to value individual leisure has become stronger, workers are dreaming of calling it a day on time. However, in South Korea, the reality is that there is no real possibility of leaving work on time. According to a [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers are struggling to make ends meet despite the “social distancing” campaign caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus. In the process, many sad stories have been revealed. An employee in his mid-40s who joined South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang only a month ago collapsed early Thursday during an [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The spread of the new coronavirus has made things difficult for companies, leading to a growing number of employees suffering from labor code violations such as forced annual leave, unpaid leave, layoffs and pay cuts. According to an analysis of 911 reported cases, which civic group Workplace Gapjil 119 [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With the outbreak of the novel coronavirus ongoing, it is being recommended that people eat meals while distancing themselves from others at work and at home. In particular, social gatherings such as office get-togethers have all but disappeared. Some office workers are welcoming the new trend, taking advantage of [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The average South Korean employee says that they need to save at least 700 million won (US$572,640) to prepare for retirement. This result is based on a survey conducted by Saramin, an online job portal, targeting 1538 workers. However, only 35.6 percent of the office workers thought they would [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Entering the 50th day since the outbreak of the coronavirus, South Korean office workers are struggling under a growing financial burden. Incruit, a South Korean job search portal, conducted a survey of 856 companies, 6.1 percent of which said they have sent employees home on an unpaid leave of [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — While one in five office workers say they have had “experience in starting a business” in the past, many of them had to shut down fewer than two years later, a recent report showed. According to a survey conducted by job search portal JobKorea of 1,348 adult men and [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Until the new coronavirus broke out in South Korea, Park Yoon-ha was happily looking forward to meeting her first child this fall. But as the number of infections spiked, her daily commute on the subway and time at work became tinted with fear as she grew anxious about her [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean companies are adopting remote working systems to help insulate their employees from the new coronavirus outbreak and contain its spread. Employees at companies that carry out telecommuting are welcoming the remote work in terms of reduced infection anxiety and childcare burden, but employees in jobs that cannot [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of South Korean workers purchase lottery tickets every week, a recent survey revealed. According to an online survey of 1,356 office workers conducted by online job portal Saramin, 84.4 percent said they had purchased lottery tickets. By gender, 88.4 percent of men purchased lottery tickets, 8.3 percentage [...]