South Korea's chip workers enjoy hot demand - in jobs and marriage

The Download: South Korea’s hottest bachelors, and advancing eye transplants

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in a matchmaking company a year ago. In a

S. Korea's yearly working hours fall by 32 hours last year but remain longer than OECD average

SEOUL, July 5 (Yonhap) -- The average annual working hours for South Koreans fel...

South Korea’s chip worker bonuses are so large the central bank is treating them as an inflation risk

The semiconductor super-cycle has made South Korea’s chip workers extraordinarily well paid, and the country’s central bank is now worried about what happens when that money hits the wider economy. The Bank of Korea warned this month that performance bonuses at Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix could spread into broader wage increases and add upward [] This story continues at The Next Web

[Graphic News] Workers aged 70 and older surpass 2m

The number of employed South Koreans aged 70 and older surpassed 2 million for the first time in 2025, according to government data. Statistics Korea said over 2.16 million people in the age group were employed last year, up 9.2 percent from 1.98 million in 2024. The figure has increased steadily from just under 1.22 million in 2018, rising by nearly 80 percent over the seven-year period. Workers aged 70 and older accounted for 7.5 percent of all employed people in 2025, up 3 percentage points f

How to stop AI becoming the enemy of younger workers

‘Seniority-biased’ hiring patterns in South Korea carry a lesson for the rest of the world