SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean workers and entrepreneurs are being permitted to bypass strict entry bans on foreigners to travel to South Asian countries where the coronavirus is rapidly spreading. Despite the rampant spread of the virus in the region, South Korean workers and entrepreneurs are accepting the risk in order to [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Scorching summer temperatures can be a serious risk to industrial workers. With this in mind, the government is working on initiatives to protect industrial workers from the summer heat. According to the Korea Occupational Safety & Health Agency (KOSHA) on Monday, the number of industrial workers who suffered from [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of South Korean employees for the U.S. Forces Korea returned to work Monday following months of unpaid leave, after Seoul and Washington agreed upon a wage deal amid their stalled defense-cost sharing negotiations. More than 4,000 South Korean workers had been on the furlough since April 1, as [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to dwindling income following the coronavirus outbreak, self-employed business owners as well as wage workers are being driven to work two jobs, a recent survey revealed. Incruit, an online job portal, conducted a survey of 1,599 men and women with recent experience looking for a part-time job, 13.5 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that three out of four salaried people in their 30s and 40s are worrying about losing their job due to the deterioration of the business environment resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. JobKorea, a job portal site in South Korea, carried out a survey of [...]
SEJONG, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting next year, workers’ wages are expected to be secured safely even if construction companies participating in public works fail and bank accounts are seized. Government ministries, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Public Procurement Service, announced measures on Friday to improve the direct wage [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a growing social atmosphere that values spending time alone instead of in groups, some office workers have been found to live a voluntary “unsocial” life at work as physical distancing measures have become a part of everyday life. According to a survey of 1,314 office workers by online [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – About 2 out of 3 retirees aged 50 or older in South Korea are forced to cut their living expenditures, a recent survey showed on Monday. For most office workers, the retirement experience is far from carefree golden years. Hana Financial Group Inc., a major South Korean banking group, [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A majority of office workers give up quitting their job because they are worried about the situation that awaits them after they quit, a poll showed Wednesday. JobKorea, an online search portal, conducted a survey of 2,928 office workers who had made up their mind to quit their job, [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A significant number of office workers have experienced wage cuts due to the coronavirus pandemic, a recent survey showed. Incruit, an online job portal, conducted a survey of 576 office workers, 41.8 percent of whom saw their wages cut due to the coronavirus, mainly due to unpaid leave (16.3 [...]