SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The health ministry is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to accept the resignations of trainee doctors, a source close to the matter said, in a move to help them seek other career paths or return to hospitals. For months, the government has ordered trainee doctors, who have remained [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A household headed by someone in their 20s would need to save for 86.4 years to afford an apartment in Seoul through savings alone, according to a new analysis that highlights the daunting challenges facing the younger generation in the country’s real estate market. The study, released on June 3 [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The proportion of employed South Korean women holding low-skilled manual labor positions more than triples after marriage, highlighting how career interruptions for childbirth and child-rearing contribute to a deterioration in job quality, experts say. According to microdata from Statistics Korea’s Economically Active Population Survey, there were 2,079,000 women in elementary [...]
BUSAN, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –A young student in Busan has become the target of online abuse after being lauded for exposing a misleading video game that distorted the 1980 pro-democracy uprising in the city of Gwangju, prompting a police investigation. The Yeonje Police Station in Busan said on June 3 that it was investigating [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – What constitutes a high salary for South Korean office workers? According to a recent survey, the general consensus is an annual income of around 85.5 million won. The survey, conducted by the job platform JobKorea, polled 721 employed men and women, allowing for multiple responses. The results showed that respondents [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A staggering 24% of dual-income families in Seoul experience symptoms of depression, according to a new study by the Seoul Research Institute. Working mothers and fathers struggle with insufficient societal and institutional support for child-rearing and caregiving responsibilities. Alarmingly, 15.8% of unmarried youths in Seoul within the optimal marriage age [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of medical facilities capable of handling births in South Korea has plummeted by over 30% in the past decade, according to recent government data, raising concerns over access to maternal care across the nation. More than 70 regions either lack obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) clinics entirely or have facilities unable [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Average South Korean workers in their 20s need 86.4 years to buy an apartment in Seoul using only their wage earnings, a report showed Monday. Lee Han-jin, a researcher at the Labor Institute of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, the largest umbrella union, released the report based on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean defectors’ group said Monday it could consider temporarily halting the scattering of anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border if the North’s leader Kim Jong-un apologizes for the sending of trash-carrying balloons to South Korea. Since Tuesday, North Korea has sent nearly 1,000 balloons carrying trash to the [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will offer exceptional incentives to small and medium-sized companies that implement childbirth and child care promotion systems, such as payment of money gifts for birth and flexible work hours. Incentives, such as the supply of replacement workers, extra allowances for co-workers of [...]