Korea is quite well-known for having one of the highest gender wage gaps among advanced countries and there's even more data supporting this.<br />Business rating agency CEO Score's recent survey on Korea' top 290 companies show,... that men earn 23-thousand dollars more a year than women.<br />The average annual salary for men last year was 64-thousand dollars, while women earned 41-thousand.<br />The gender wage gap was the widest in the banking sector, where the difference was 40-thousand dollars.<br />The agency said the reason is mainly because men stay with their job longer than women... and also because women tend to stay longer in lower positions.
