South Korea's 100 listed companies have reduced their number of non-regular positions this year.
According to corporate research firm, Chaebul-dot-com,.... number of temporary workers at these companies dropped to 12-point-one percent to about 37-thousand as of June.
Fifty-one companies,... including Samsung Electronics, Korea Electric Power Corporation, Hyundai Motor, SK Hynix and POSCO.... all reduced their number of non-regular positions.
About 8-thousand-6-hundred regular jobs were added,.... bringing the total to more than 81-thousand.
The research firm said,.... companies seem to have increased regular employment to match the government's job creation policy.