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. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people working at restaurants and hotels dropped 64,000 on-year in July as the fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic continued to weigh down on the sectors, the government said Tuesday. The total number of workers in the restaurant and hotel industry stood at 1.09 million last [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Leading automaker Hyundai Motor Co. was the top employer of physically challenged workers among 70 major firms in South Korea in 2020, with their total hiring of disabled people continuing to rise, a corporate tracker said Thursday. Hyundai Motor, the flagship of No. 5 global automaker Hyundai Motor Group, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s average wage is growing more rapidly than major advanced countries, but the former’s labor productivity is lagging behind due to a decrease in working hours., an expert said. Park Seo-woo, an analyst at the Korea Industry Alliance Forum, said in an online seminar held on Tuesday that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will establish legal grounds to enable the systematic management and application of the information regarding workers’ vocational abilities accumulated through educational training programs, for employment and human resource management purposes. The Ministry of Employment and Labor announced on Tuesday that it had issued an advance legislation notice [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Korean workers have been wrestling with the new reality of returning to the office as more businesses scale back the pandemic practice of working from home in line with the government’s new social distancing rules. One office worker who lives in Seoul’s eastern Songpa [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — With social distancing measures and quarantine policies gradually being phased out as a growing number of Koreans are vaccinated, an increasing number of companies are ending work-at-home policies and asking employees to return to the office. While these measures are being welcomed by many, there are concerns over readjusting [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Violations of the Labor Standards Act, including overtime work exceeding the statutory working hours, are rampant at Naver Corp., a recent survey showed. The South Korean search giant’s labor union recently conducted a survey with of members belonging to the firm’s three CIC (Company in Company) units. The results [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Younger office workers find it stressful that KakaoTalk, South Korea’s top mobile messenger, is being used for work, complaining that it undermines their work-life balance and privacy, a recent survey showed. Market analysis company Open Survey conducted a study of 1,000 office workers in their 20s to 50s, in [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — After the coronavirus outbreak, the demand for medical and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)-related workers increased, a state-run think tank said. The demand for employees who can develop new technology increased on the back of the growing interest in health resulting from population aging and income growth, according [...]