Top 10 groups down 4,700 employees in H1
Aug. 17, 2016
[THE INVESTOR] Payrolls were slashed to the tune of 4,700 employees in the first half of the year at listed affiliates of South Korea’s top 10 conglomerates, as two-thirds of jobs lost were reported in the shipbuilding sector, which has been hit hard by the prolonged slump, data showed Aug. 17.A total of 641,390 were employed by listed companies affiliated with the top 10 business groups at the end of June, inching down 0.7 percent from the end of 2015, according to the data compiled by corporat