female workforce

Shipping & Shipbuilding Hanwha to more than double staff at US Philly Shipyard in 10 years

South Korea’s Hanwha Group is set to more than double its employees at Hanwha Philly Shipyard in the US over the next 10 years as the chemic...

Economy Foreign workers in S.Korea surpasses 1 million

The number of foreign workers in South Korea has broken past the 1 million mark.According to Statistics Korea on Tuesday, as of May, there were 1.56...

Sports Twenty-something female away team fans lead Korean baseball craze

South Korea’s professional baseball league games enjoyed record-high attendance of more than 10 million this year thanks to the growing number...

Economy Filipino caregivers come to Korea amid demographic crisis

Some 100 certified caregivers from the Philippines will come to South Korea in August to work as domestic helpers in a country struggling with the...

Electronics Samsung ups smaller OLED workforce to fend off Chinese rivals

Samsung Display Co., South Korea’s top screen maker, increased its workforce for smaller organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels used for p...

Food & Beverage Nongshim Kellogg overtakes Dongsuh as Korea’s top cereal maker

Just a few years back, cereals meant cornflakes eaten with milk during busy mornings in South Korea.Nowadays, however, cereals mean granola made of ...

Artificial intelligence LG Elec expands workforce to enhance AI cyber security

LG Electronics Inc., the leading global home appliance maker, is actively increasing its workforce to improve artificial intelligence cyber security...

Batteries SK On to expand workforce for 4680 cylindrical batteries

SK On Co., the world’s fifth-largest electric vehicle battery maker, is set to increase its workforce for large-size cylindrical batteries wit...

Corporate restructuring Naver, Com2uS slash workforce to downsize new businesses

South Korea’s leading online platforms and gaming publishers such as Naver Corp., Com2uS Corp. and Kakao Corp. have joined global Big Tech com...

Leadership & Management HD Hyundai aims to double number of female employees by 2030

HD Hyundai Co., the world’s largest shipbuilding group, will introduce a childcare leave system to make the male-dominated conglomerate an att...

Business & Politics S.Korea to add India, Lithuania to list of nations eligible for E-9 visa

South Korea plans to allow non-professional workers from India and Lithuania to apply for the E-9 visa as the country struggles with a shrinking wor...

Korean games Korea game makers lure more female users with Hello Kitty

South Korean game developers have teamed up with Hello Kitty and other fictional characters of Japanese entertainment company Sanrio Co. to lure mor...

Economy Korea’s smaller firms embrace older, experienced workforce

South Korea’s liquid filtration system developer Neos Corp. has seven employees, all seasoned mechanical and electrical engineers in their 60s...

Retail Louis Vuitton creates jobs for Korean women returning from career breaks

Louis Vuitton will create jobs for South Korean women coming back from career breaks, a rare move for a global high-end brand in the fast-growing lu...

Automobiles Hankook Tire to cut workforce at fire-hit Daejeon plant

Hankook Tire & Technology Co., South Korea’s largest tire maker, will cut its workforce at the fire-hit production complex in Daejeon thro...

Construction POSCO E&C supports construction workforce development in Argentina

POSCO E&C (formerly POSCO Engineering & Construction), the builder affiliate of South Korea's POSCO Group, announced on Wednesday that it ha...

Automobiles S.Korea to invest $24 mn in fostering future car industry workforce

South Korea will invest 31.5 billion won ($23.96 million) this year to train over 3,700 core personnel in future car technologies, including autonom...

Corporate governance SK Group affiliates hire more female outside directors

Major affiliates of South Korea’s SK Group are recruiting a large number of female outside directors with the arrival of the season of regular...

ESG LG Elec honored with BPW Gold Award for advancing gender equality

LG Electronics Inc. announced on Sunday that it has been honored with the 28th BPW Gold Award from the Korea Federation of Business & Profession...

Tech, Media & Telecom NCSOFT lays off 20% of US operation before new game release

NCSOFT Corp., South Korea’s major game developing and publishing company, has recently laid off about 20% of its North American operation, joi...

Leadership & Management Women break glass ceiling in South Korea's advertising sector

Major advertising agencies in South Korea have appointed women to the position of vice president. Because advertising is a field in which women are ...

Markets Korea Exchange, Uzbek Ministry of Finance sign agreement for cooperation

The Korea Exchange (KRX) has agreed to cooperate with the Ministry of Finance of Uzbekistan on the maintenance of the stock market IT system. T...

Executive reshuffles Samsung Elec names first female president under Chairman Jay Y. Lee

Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip and smartphone maker, has carried out its year-end executive reshuffle, marked by its...

Economy One out of six married women in South Korea opts out of workforce: NSO

One out of six married women in South Korea has opted out of the workforce, to take on most of the childrearing burden in the family. Around 1....

Korean startups SK Chair Chey advises startups to address social issues for viability

In an event that marked the 10-year anniversary of startup accelerator SparkLabs, South Korean business magnate Chey Tae-won said now is the time fo...

Leadership & Management CJ Group reshuffles CEOs with woman at helm of Olive Young

South Korea’s CJ Group carried out a CEO and executive reshuffle on Oct. 24 around two months earlier than previous year-end promotions to imp...

Automobiles Hyundai Motor raises N.America workforce, cuts China staff

Hyundai Motor Co., South Korea’s top automaker, ramped up its workforce in North America by more than 50% last year where its presence is grow...

Entertainment Kakao buys Asia fantasy fiction platform giant Wuxiaworld

South Korea’s Kakao Entertainment Corp. has bought the world’s top Asian fantasy web novel platform Wuxiaworld, based in the US, to expa...

Leadership & Management Samsung’s mid-tier executive reshuffle: More female and foreign faces

Samsung Electronics Co. on Thursday carried out its year-end reshuffle of mid-tier executives, marked by the highest number of promotions for female...

Shareholder value Young, female, foreign: Hyundai Motor Group’s new BOD

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Group, under its new leader Chung Euisun, is seeking changes on its board of directors, the group's top business d...