More than half of workers had financial problem with colleagues

Published : Aug 11, 2011 - 13:06 Updated : Aug 11, 2011 - 13:36

(MCT)

More than half of Korean workers were not paid back money they lent to colleagues, a poll showed on Thursday.

According to Recruit, a local online job search engine, about 87.2 percent of the 532 respondents said that they had lent money to colleagues.

But about 57.2 percent replied that they had not got the money back, while 44.4 percent had quarrelled over the issue.

While a quarter of workers only lent less than 50,000 won ($46), some 20.7 percent of the participants said they had lent above 2 million won.

By Kang Yoon-seung
(koreacolin@gmail.com)
Intern reporter

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직장인 57.1% “동료에게 돈 떼였다”

절반 넘는 직장인이 회사 동료에게 돈을 빌려줬다 받지 못한 것으로 나타났다.

취업•인사포털 리크루트는 11일 직장인 532명을 대상으로 ‘직장 내 돈거래’를 주제로 설문조사한 결과, 응답자의 87.2%가 동료에게 돈을 빌려준 적이 있는 것으로 집계됐다고 밝혔다.

빌려준 금액은 ‘1만~5만원’이라는 응답이 24.1%로 가장 많았고, ‘200만원 이상’(20.7%), ‘10만~50만원’(18.5%), ‘100만~200만원’(7.3%) 순이었다.

특히 돈을 빌려준 직장인 중 돌려받지 못했다는 응답자가 57.2%에 달했고, 44.4%는 돈거래로 마찰이나 갈등을 겪은 적이 있다고 답했다. (연합뉴스)