[Newsmaker] Samsung nixes hiring plan after backlash
Social affairsJan 28, 2014
Job seekers leave a high school in Seoul after taking Samsung’s entrance exam in October 2013. (Yonhap) Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest conglomerate, said Tuesday it would scrap its heavily criticized plan to introduce a new recruitment path that favors top-tier universities in Seoul. The new hiring method proposed by the country’s most preferred workplace would have allowed universities t...