[Economy 365] A
survey has come out that the number of involuntary retirees has increased due to the economic downturn caused by COVID-19.
As a result of the FKI survey of 306 middle-aged job seekers over the age of 40, 71.9% of them resigned involuntarily.
Looking at the reasons for retirement, 59.5% were recommended resignation, honorary retirement, layoffs, and contract termination, and 12.4% were retired due to business sluggishness or closure or closure of business.
In addition, 58.1% of middle-aged job seekers were found to wish to re-employ even if it is not their main career field.
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Seoul Rehabilitation Court has approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Ssangyong Motor and Edison Motors consortium.
Ssangyong Motors granted the exclusive priority negotiation right to Edison Motors, and the negotiation right expires when an investment contract is concluded or three months pass.
Edison Motors plans to conduct a due diligence on Ssangyong Motors for two weeks until the middle of this month to examine specific assets and liabilities.
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IPO of Kakao Pay, CEO Young-Jun Ryu and other executives and employees have gained a large amount of valuation gains through stock options.
According to the Kakao Pay Securities Report, the number of unexercised stock options granted by the company to its employees is 5,597,433 shares.
Kakao Pay opened the market yesterday (3rd) at 180,000 won, double from 90,000 won, and closed at 193,000 won, up 7.22%.
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In the third quarter, online shopping transactions amounted to close to KRW 50 trillion, a record high.
According to Statistics Korea, online shopping transactions in the third quarter of this year increased by 19.6% from last year to 48.2 trillion won.
In the third quarter, mobile shopping transactions amounted to KRW 34.9 trillion, an increase of 26.9% from a year earlier, accounting for 72.5% of the total online shopping transactions.