Seven in 10 Korean company workers are secretly looking for new jobs, a survey of 2,602 respondents showed.
Asked if they were looking for job alternatives, a surprising 74.4 percent said they were.
By gender, 76.2 percent of male workers were clandestinely search for different jobs with the rate being 71.1 percent for women.
Asked why they were keeping the job search a secret, 59.5 percent said they wanted to keep it under cover until the situation became more firm and 40.2 percent said they were not sure if they could get another job.
On the average, those looking for new jobs spent about four months in preparation with 11.3 percent saying that they spend up to a year in doing the necessary research.
In the process, these people looking for new jobs constantly tap into recruit sites on the Internet to see what is out on the market.
They prepare resumes and take English language tests to improve what is now called in Korea as “spec” or specification.
While most of them said they use their extra time _after work and on weekends _ on the job search, more than 16 percent confessed that they go through the process at work.