Google Korea picked students favorite workplace: survey

College students in South Korea most prefer the local unit of Google Inc., operator of the world's largest Web search engine, as their would-be workplace among foreign firms operating in the country, a survey showed Tuesday.

According to the survey of 814 university students by JobKorea, a local recruitment agency, 23.1 percent said they hope to work for Google Korea when they graduate.

Nine percent of the respondents selected Yuhan Kimberly Co. as their favorite foreign company where they want to work.

Citibank Korea Inc. came in third with 5.3 percent, IBM Korea with 4.8 percent and Sony Korea with 3.2 percent, the survey showed.

Asked why they hope to work at foreign companies, 44 percent selected higher wages, and 43 percent cited good working conditions and welfare services.