SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly half of South Korea’s working moms quit their jobs within a year of taking childcare leave, a report said Friday. The high proportion of early retirement by women is attributed to discrimination at the workplace and long work hours, the report by the Korea Institute for Health and [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study disproved the current negative remarks on young Korean women of their excessive dependency on men, who are often marked with a scarlet letter “Kimchi girl.” “Kimchi girl” is a derogatory webspeak word in Korea, used to indicate young Korean women who depend entirely on men of [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 7 (Korea Bizwire) – One of two working mothers grumbled that they had no time for themselves, a survey said. Especially 64.2 percent of those with preschool kids replied so. According to a survey conducted by a job portal, JobKorea, 62 percent of working moms answered that they needed their own [...]