South Korea’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stood at 3.4 percent in April, unchanged from the previous month, official figures showed Wednesday. The economy added 455,000 jobs in April compared with 379,000 a year earlier. via S. Korea jobless rate falls due to service jobs – Channel NewsAsia.
Vice Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Gi-gwon and Vietnamese Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen held a bilateral meeting between the two Ministries in Hanoi, Vietnam on April 23rd. At the meeting, they signed a Letter of Arrangement between both countries concerning the provision of policy advice on the … Continue reading
Around 70,000 ethnic Koreans from China working here face the end of their temporary employment visas. Korea opened its doors to ethnic Koreans mostly from China in 2007 to make up for a shortage of workers here in so-called 3D — dirty, dangerous and difficult — jobs. But the four-year, 10-month work visas start to … Continue reading