SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment rate for women exceeded the 60 percent mark for the first time last year, but the wage gap between genders still remains high, a government report showed Wednesday. The employment index for women aged 15 to 64 reached 60 percent in 2022, up 7.3 percentage points from [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 1.26 million young people remained unemployed after completing their studies, and it took more than 10 months for youths to get their first job after graduation on average, data showed Sunday. Of the 8.42 million people aged 15-29, 4.52 million had graduated from middle school, high school [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment of wage workers in South Korea grew at a slow pace in the first quarter of 2023 amid an economic slowdown, and two out of three newly added jobs were for senior citizens, data showed Friday. The number of paid employee jobs came to 20.21 million in [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Contrary to the declining number of Koreans in their 20s and job recruits, caused by the low birthrate and an aging society, there is an increasing trend among young South Koreans to refuse engagement in job-seeking activities. There were 6.15 million people in their 20s in the country as [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual growth rate of involuntary part-time workers in the past decade has exceeded that of overall wage workers, a private think tank said. The Korea Economic Research Institute (KERI) analyzed data provided by Statistics Korea, revealing that the number of individuals compelled to work part-time increased by 2.5 [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last three years, career interruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic have become a serious problem among South Korean women, with a higher percentage of them experiencing career interruptions compared to men, and it takes longer for them to return to the job market. The Ministry of Gender [...]
SEJONG, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea added 491,000 jobs for wage workers in the fourth quarter of 2022, data showed Friday, led by the construction and manufacturing sectors. The number of paying jobs came to 20.45 million in the October-December period, up from 19.96 million tallied a year earlier, according to the data [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The quality of jobs in South Korea is deteriorating as the number of regular positions at major companies remains stagnant, while the number of non-regular jobs is increasing, a corporate tracker said Wednesday. The Leaders Index analyzed quarterly reports from 334 companies, which are among the top 500 in [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of jobs for people in their 40s in South Korea decreased for the 10th consecutive month in April, data showed Sunday, amid the protracted slump in the country’s manufacturing industry. Jobs for the age group have been falling on-year since July, with the positions decreasing 22,000 from [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), South Korea’s state-owned railway operator, said Tuesday it will begin offering jobs to homeless people living near subway stations in Seoul, Busan, and eight other locations. KORAIL, in collaboration with local governments and support centers for the homeless, will provide jobs to 100 homeless individuals [...]