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Labor & Environment

Wed, April 14, 2021 | 08:00

Migrant women call for better working conditions

Purevsuren Maingbayar, 38, a marriage migrant from Mongolia, is a bilingual tutor at a public education institution with nine years of work experience. But her employment status remains unstable as it is based on short-term contracts each lasting less than 10 months.

2020-11-18 17:42

Fine dust hits Korea

The cityscape of Osan, Gyeonggi Province is seen under skies blanketed by a gray haze caused by fine dust amid an influx of particles from China. The fine dust level is, however, expected to fall following overnight rain. / Yonhap

Kang Seung-woo | 2020-11-17 17:08

Salaried employees work 8 hours per day, take 8.25 days off per month: poll

Salaried employees in South Korea work for 8.05 hours on average per work day and take an average of 8.25 days off per month, a poll showed Monday.According to the survey of 1,000 workers aged between 19 and 55 by local pollster Embrain Public, 811 respondents said they stay at work for more than eight hours per weekday, with 54.7 percent of them saying their overtime is caus...

2020-11-09 21:52

After-school child care workers go on strike over working conditions

Hundreds of after-school child care workers at elementary schools were set to launch a one-day strike Friday, raising concerns about a void in child care for young students with working parents. More than 6,000 after-school child care workers, about half their total number in the country, plan to take part in the strike led by a national rights advocacy group for non-regular ...

2020-11-06 10:48

'Sparrows' try to cap surge of throwaway plastic

At a workshop in the South Korean capital, two environmental activists melt down old plastic bottle caps that thousands of volunteers known as "sparrows" have collected in a bid to fight a tide of plastic the novel coronavirus has helped unleash. Green activists Kim Yona and Lee Dong-I use the bottle caps to make a tube-squeezing device - something they hope consumers will fi...

2020-11-06 10:07

Freezing temperatures

People bundled up against the cold weather wait for a traffic light to change in front of Dongnae Station in Busan, Wednesday. The Korea Meteorological Administration said temperatures nationwide dropped to near or below freezing Wednesday, noting that the strong autumn cold front causing the low temperatures would end Thursday afternoon.

Jun Ji-hye2020-11-04 16:53

Moon reaffirms Korea's commitment to achieving carbon neutral by 2050

President Moon Jae-in said Tuesday that South Korea is seriously committed to its stated aim of going carbon neutral by 2050 to support the global fight against climate change. He called for national efforts to attain the goal via a "calm and cool-headed" approach, speaking during a weekly Cabinet meeting at Cheong Wa Dae. "Carbon neutrality is the direction in which the worl...

2020-11-03 13:50

[ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL] Green New Deal, lever for green transition

The world is gripped by fear and shock caused by COVID-19. Global growth in 2020 was projected at minus 4.9 percent by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June. Some even warn life will never return to how it was before the pandemic.

Jun Ji-hye2020-11-01 16:55

14 delivery workers die because of pandemic overwork: union

Fourteen delivery workers in South Korea have died of overwork this year because they had to handle a sharply higher volume of packages due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the latest fatality this week, a union official said. A worker for CJ Logistics Corp collapsed while taking a short break late on Tuesday night and later died in hospital, according to an official at the ...

2020-10-22 21:00

Seoul issues fine dust advisory

The Seoul metropolitan government on Thursday issued its first fine dust advisory of this fall, citing an inflow of fine dust and yellow dust from China and elsewhere. According to the city's health and environment research center, the average fine dust concentration level stayed above 150 micrograms per cubic meter for over two hours, forcing it to issue the advisory.

2020-10-22 16:47

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