Visitors look around booths at the 2023 1st KB Goodjob Job Fair hosted by KB GoodJob, a recruitment portal, at COEX, southern Seoul, Monday. The two-day job fair event first began in 2011.
Korea's job additions slowed in April after a brief rebound a month earlier, data showed Wednesday, amid higher borrowing costs and an economic slowdown, with most new positions taken by seniors.
The idea of blind hiring, or blind recruitment, is a concept not unique to Korea, which in recent years began mandating its civil service and the public sector to apply the practice regularly...
Korea saw a record number of working senior citizens aged 60 and older in 2022, the first year that the age group added more than 400,000 workers in a year since 1963.
Korea's job additions snapped their nine-month decline in March in the face of an economic slowdown, but most jobs were created for the over-60 age group, data showed Wednesday. The number of employed people came to 28.22 million last month, up...
The unemployment rate in February matched the August record of 2.6 percent seasonally adjusted as more elderly Koreans went to work.
An employee organizes displayed suits at a suit shop in Yeongtong District, eastern Suwon, on Thursday afternoon. The city government of Suwon has been running a free suit rental program ″Chungnarae″ for Suwon residents between the ages of 19...
The terrible job market is set to remain that way as a majority of Korean companies say they have no plans to hire new graduates.
Korea plans to speed up spending the employment-related budget in the first half of 2023 amid signs of a slowdown in the job market, the finance minister said Wednesday.
Elena Kuznetcova was writing her master’s thesis at Seoul National University when she noticed a friend struggling to land a job in Korea. She kept getting rejected.
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