Bahk Eun-ji has been with The Korea Times since 2012, building a career across multiple desks. She began at the Business Desk, where she conducted in-depth interviews with key figures in Korea's corporate world. Later, she moved to the Politics & City Desk, focusing on education policy and social affairs. She later served as team leader of the digital content team, leading curation efforts on the newspaper’s homepage and reshaping print stories for social media audiences to enhance digital reach. Now back on the Politics Desk, she covers the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Defense, with a renewed focus on political developments.
Strike looming ahead
Buses are parked at a bus parking lot in Songpa-gu, eastern Seoul, Tuesday, a day ahead of a planned strike by 35,000 unionized bus drivers across the country. The drivers are calling for countermeasures against an expected salary cut along with the implementation of the 52-hour workweek system in July. Bus drivers in Daegu and Incheon reached an agreement with their companies and called off the strike plan, while those in other regions have not as of 5 p.m. / Yonhap
By Bahk Eun-ji