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Biz News Korea(Eng)
Half of Korean major firms cut back on new hiring this year
- Collected
- 2016.09.22
- Distributed
- 2016.09.23
- Source
- Go Direct
According to a survey released by the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI), a lobby group for the country’s major conglomerates, on Wednesday, 48.6 percent of the Korea’s top 500 firms said they would be hiring fewer employees than last year, compared to 35.8 percent who had answered the same in last year’s survey.
Among the polled, only 11.4 percent said they were planning to recruit more than last year and 40 percent said they would maintain a similar quota.
A majority of firms - 52 percent - pointed to foggy economic and industrial conditions at home and abroad for the scale-down. Another 32.4 percent cited worsened state of their companies. The other 9.8 percent said jobs became scarcer because of extension in retirement age.
The state was the worst on the shipping and shipbuilding front, swept up in restructuring wave.
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. that usually recruits 1,000 each in the first and second half won’t be publicly hiring during the latter half. The same goes for other major shipyards like Samsung Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. all suffering dearth of new orders.
By Park Yong-beom
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