Where to Find a Part-Time Job in Korea? 39,778 Brand Job Postings Analyzed (July 2026)

If you were looking for a part-time job in South Korea, where would the actual openings be? Not where gut instinct might point. To get the answer from real numbers, I went through every posting on Albamon’s brand directory — 33 industries, 144 brands, 39,778 job listings — as they appeared on July 29, 2026. The results defied a few common assumptions. The industry with the most openings was not convenience stores or cafes. And the single biggest hirer was a cosmetics chain.

What exactly do these numbers count — and what do they miss?

These figures come from Albamon Brand Zone, the section of Korea’s largest part-time job platform dedicated to franchise and corporate-brand listings. Each industry page shows the top 5 brands, and I added up every posting visible there. This tally reflects the distribution of branded positions — not the entire Korean part-time market.

Which industry has the most openings?

Logistics. Not cafes or convenience stores — warehouse in/out and management leads at 6,010 postings (15.1%). Grouped into broader buckets, the picture sharpens further.

📊 Posting distribution by broad category (33 industries grouped into 5 clusters, tallied 2026-07-29)

Category	Postings	Share	Industries included
Retail & store	16,315	41.0%	Convenience stores, beauty stores, department stores, marts, clothing, electronics, bookstores, furniture
Food & beverage	12,423	31.2%	Coffee, fast food, bakeries, chicken & pizza, family restaurants, pubs
Logistics & delivery	7,591	19.1%	Warehousing, parcel delivery, courier dispatch, foot delivery
Office, consulting & sales	2,943	7.4%	Customer service, financial & insurance sales, mall inbound, rental management, tutoring
Leisure & service	506	1.3%	Hotels, theme parks, cinemas, PC bangs, fitness, gas stations, cleaning

Retail and food & beverage together account for 72% of all postings; add logistics and you reach 91%. By contrast, the spaces travelers encounter most — hotels, theme parks, cinemas — amount to just 1.3% combined.

🏆 Full 33-industry ranking — posting count and the #1 brand in each

#	Industry	Postings	Share	#1 brand (postings · share within industry)
1	Warehouse in/out & management	6,010	15.1%	Coupang (2,852 · 47%)
2	Convenience stores	5,890	14.8%	GS25 (4,978 · 85%)
3	Coffee chains	5,446	13.7%	Mega MGC Coffee (2,200 · 40%)
4	Beauty & health stores	5,301	13.3%	Olive Young (5,242 · 99%)
5	Fast food	3,328	8.4%	Lotte Giant (1,103 · 33%)
6	Department stores & malls	1,767	4.4%	Lotte Department Store (671 · 38%)
7	Retail & mart	1,672	4.2%	Baedal B Mart (586 · 35%)
8	Customer service & inbound	1,120	2.8%	KS Korea Employment Info (717 · 64%)
9	Parcel & delivery driver	1,057	2.7%	Coupang Flex (905 · 86%)
10	Mobile phone & electronics stores	802	2.0%	LG U+ (507 · 63%)
11	Family restaurants	790	2.0%	Outback Steakhouse (280 · 35%)
12	Bakeries, donuts & rice cakes	741	1.9%	Paris Baguette (324 · 44%)
13	Chicken & pizza chains	703	1.8%	BHC (251 · 36%)
14	Ice cream & desserts	673	1.7%	Baskin Robbins (577 · 86%)
15	Clothing, accessories & jewelry	646	1.6%	Topten (204 · 32%)
16	Rental management & A/S	551	1.4%	Coway (349 · 63%)
17	Financial & insurance sales	514	1.3%	AIA Life (165 · 32%)
18	Mall inbound	467	1.2%	Coupang (397 · 85%)
19	General restaurants	465	1.2%	Yukhoe Bareun Yeoneo (117 · 25%)
20	Delivery dispatch & food delivery	319	0.8%	Baemin Connect (168 · 53%)
21	Visiting & tutoring services	291	0.7%	Hansol Education Sin-gi-han Nara (85 · 29%)
22	Pubs & bars	253	0.6%	Yeokjeon Halmeoni Maekju (177 · 70%)
23	Foot delivery	205	0.5%	Korea Yakult (205 · 100%)
24	Hotels, resorts & accommodation	191	0.5%	Paradise Hotel (85 · 45%)
25	Bookstores, stationery & fancy goods	142	0.4%	Artbox (106 · 75%)
26	Furniture, bedding & interior	95	0.2%	Simmons (68 · 72%)
27	Amusement & theme parks	87	0.2%	Everland (34 · 39%)
28	Gas stations & car washes	63	0.2%	Hyundai Oilbank (19 · 30%)
29	Cinemas & performance halls	63	0.2%	Megabox (33 · 52%)
30	PC bangs	61	0.2%	Zeroback PC Bang (61 · 100%)
31	Fitness & sports	40	0.1%	Gymbox (30 · 75%)
32	Lunch boxes & side dishes	24	0.1%	Hansot Dosirak (21 · 88%)
33	Cleaning & sanitation	1	0.0%	IBS Industry (1 · 100%)

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Some industries are effectively a single brand’s hiring board

Look at the “share within industry” column on the right. In several categories, one company owns practically the entire pipeline.

The same pattern appears in convenience stores. GS25 alone accounts for 4,978 postings — 85% of the industry. EMART24 (476), CU (306), 7-Eleven (125), and C-Space (5) total 912 together. The gap is wider than the actual store-count ratio would suggest, which likely reflects different posting strategies per brand.

🎯 Top 6 industries with extreme #1 brand concentration

Industry	#1 brand	Share within industry	#2 through #5 combined
Beauty & health stores	Olive Young	99%	59 postings
Foot delivery	Korea Yakult	100%	0 postings
Lunch boxes & side dishes	Hansot Dosirak	88%	3 postings
Parcel & delivery driver	Coupang Flex	86%	152 postings
Ice cream & desserts	Baskin Robbins	86%	96 postings
Convenience stores	GS25	85%	912 postings

The most evenly spread industries were general restaurants (#1 at 25%) and clothing and accessories (#1 at 32%). More choice, but also fewer postings per brand.

Why are coffee jobs concentrated in budget chains?

Of the 5,446 coffee postings, the three budget chains — Mega MGC Coffee (2,200), Compose Coffee (1,184), and Mammoth Espresso (394) — account for 3,778. Starbucks has 407. That is a 9.3× gap.

Two factors are at play here. One is that budget coffee chains have genuinely exploded in store count. The other is a structural difference in hiring: franchise locations post individually, while company-owned chains batch-hire through central recruitment. So reading “Mega hires 9 times more than Starbucks” overstates the gap, but “Mega-affiliated jobs open far more frequently at far more locations” is accurate.

Coupang is practically its own industry

In the ranking table above, Coupang is scattered across several categories. Combined, the scale becomes visible.

📦 Coupang family postings combined (16.4% of the total)

Division	Postings	What they do
Coupang (warehouse in/out)	2,852	Loading, unloading, sorting, packing at logistics centers
Coupang Helper	1,614	Delivery assistant, short-term support
Coupang Flex	905	Per-parcel delivery using own vehicle
Coupang Fulfillment Services	500	Logistics center operations
Coupang (mall inbound)	397	Customer service and order processing
Coupang Eats	100	Food delivery
Coupang Friend	152	Direct-hire delivery driver
Total	6,520	16.4% of all 39,778 postings

Add Market Kurly (1,039) and the picture is complete: dawn-delivery e-commerce in Korea occupies a share of the part-time market comparable to the entire convenience store industry. The defining characteristics of these roles are clear — high night-shift and short-term availability, defined workflows with scanners and fixed routes, and relatively low Korean-language and customer-facing demands.

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So what is the actual hourly pay? (2026 & 2027)

Before any industry-specific rates, the baseline you need to know is the legal minimum wage. It applies nationwide — same rate in Seoul and in rural counties, regardless of industry or business size.

💰 2026 vs 2027 minimum wage (KRW / approx. $1 = 1,470 won)

Category	2026	2027	Change
Minimum hourly wage	10,320 won (about $7.0)	10,700 won (about $7.3)	+380 won (+3.7%)
Effective rate with weekly holiday pay	12,384 won	12,840 won	+456 won
Per 8-hour day	82,560 won (about $56)	85,600 won (about $58)	+3,040 won
Monthly (40-hour week · 209 hours)	2,156,880 won (about $1,467)	2,236,300 won (about $1,521)	+79,420 won

The 2027 rate of 10,700 won per hour was decided by the Minimum Wage Commission on July 14, 2026, after a vote. Labor unions had initially proposed 12,000 won; management proposed freezing the rate at 10,320 won. The management proposal carried. After formal notification by the Minister of Employment and Labor, the rate takes effect on January 1, 2027.

How should a foreigner read this table?

Posting counts tell you where jobs open frequently. Your actual choice is determined by Korean-language demands and shift timing. Here is the same data rearranged along those axes.

🧭 Industry profile by posting volume and Korean-language demand

Type	Representative industries (postings)	Korean demand	Profile
Many openings, low interaction	Logistics warehouse (6,010), foot delivery (205)	Low	High night-shift and short-term ratio, physically demanding
Many openings, high interaction	Convenience stores (5,890), coffee (5,446), beauty stores (5,301)	Medium to high	Constant customer interaction — checkout, product inquiries
Standardized interaction	Fast food (3,328)	Medium	Fixed menu and procedures narrow the range of required language
Few openings, high barrier	Hotels (191), department stores (1,767)	High	Foreign language skills are valued but experience and appearance requirements often apply
Not really part-time work	Financial & insurance sales (514), rental management (551)	High	Commission-based contract work rather than hourly pay

What does this data mean for a traveler?

Even if you are not planning to work in Korea, this distribution explains a lot of what you see on the streets.

• Why budget coffee shops are everywhere — 69% of all coffee part-time postings come from the three budget chains. More stores means continuous hiring, which is why 1,500 to 2,000 won Americano signs appear on every other corner.
• Why Olive Young always has multiple staff on the floor — the single largest brand hirer at 5,242 postings. Tourist-district locations staff thickly, and you can see it.
• How dawn delivery actually works — logistics: 6,010 postings plus parcel delivery: 1,057. That workforce is what moves your 11 PM Coupang order to your door by 7 AM.
• Why there is no tipping culture — Korea does not have one. The hourly wage above is the worker’s entire income. Service is already included in the menu price.