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 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Culture & Contents, an advertising affiliate of South Korea’s biggest music label SM Entertainment, will showcase the country’s first vehicle-aware outdoor advertisements along with online shopping mall 11th Street. Through a vehicle-sensing camera installed in front of the billboard, the camera recognizes the approaching vehicle from a distance [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With the introduction of a government mandated 52-hour workweek, South Koreans are increasingly going out to try out new experiences after work, which is seen as the onset of a new era of micro-leisure. Innocean Worldwide Inc., a local advertising agency, released a report on Thursday analyzing some 270,000 [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ weekly working hours fell slightly in 2018 from a year earlier, government data showed Wednesday, as a growing number of people are seeking to strike a balance between their work and personal life. The data compiled by Statistics Korea showed that South Korean men and women worked [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — As 2030 generation workers place importance on their own satisfaction and work-life balance, their desire to be promoted is also quite different from those in the older generations. According to a survey of 724 office workers in their 20s and 30s conducted by online job portal Saramin, 41.7 percent [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has long been one of the world’s largest ‘coffee republics,’ with a coffee market estimated at up to 12 trillion won (US$10.2 billion). Saramin, a South Korean job search portal, conducted a survey of 1,759 working adults, most of whom were found to drink at least two [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are not fully able to use their leisure time despite having more time on their hands thanks to the 52-hour workweek, a poll showed Friday. Macromill Embrain surveyed 1,000 people between the ages of 19 and 59, 70 percent of whom said they had more time off, [...]