SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — More than one out of three South Koreans who changed jobs in 2021 experienced a wage decline amid the COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The number of registered employees who were eligible for state insurance programs came to 25.49 million in 2021, up 2.7 percent from the previous year, [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in their 20s and 30s prioritize their personal lives rather than monthly wages and retirement security at work, a survey showed Monday. The Federation of Korean Industries conducted a survey of 827 South Koreans in their 20s and 30s, 36.6 percent of whom preferred to work at [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean workers do not take about 30 percent of their annual leave on average, a survey showed Monday. According to a survey of 22,000 workers between the ages of 19 and 59 conducted by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, the number of days of annual [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Workers at school cafeterias are being exposed to the risk of lung cancer due to the carcinogens emitted during cooking. 14 local education offices conducted health examinations on 24,065 cafeteria workers with more than 10 years of experience, among whom 139 people were suspected of having lung cancer. Among [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The outbreak of the COVID-19 led to a sharp increase in the number of unskilled laborers such as delivery workers and a decrease in the number of sales workers. The number of unskilled laborers such as food delivery workers and building cleaners was about 4.1 million last year, up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Korea’s large companies are introducing ‘four group, two shift’ systems instead of the previous ‘four group, three shift’ systems at manufacturing sites with young employees in their 20s and 30s emphasizing work-life balance. Under the ‘four group, two shift’ system, two groups work 12 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Three out of 10 South Koreans who were hired last year worked less than 36 hours a week, the statistics agency said Sunday. The number of part-time workers totaled 8,028,000 last year, accounting for 28.6 percent of total employment, the highest figure since 1980 when related data began to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean employees working fewer than 15 hours a week reached a new high last year, a statistics agency said Thursday. Statistics Korea reported that there were 1,577,000 people working between one and 14 hours per week last year, an increase of 65,000 people from the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly 80 percent of South Korean workers picked a wage hike as their top wish for the new year, a survey showed Sunday. According to a survey of 1,000 Korean workers conducted by a pro-labor civic group Gabjil 119, 78 percent picked “wage hike” as their new year wish, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency said Monday it has launched an online service that enables workers to check how much they have been exposed to carcinogenic substances. The agency developed K-CAREX (carcinogen exposure) to measure the scale of exposure to carcinogenic substances and the number of [...]