Don't do it - Anonymous employee Koreaboo Employee Review

2.0
21 Sept 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Being able to work remotely is nice. Your co-workers are mostly friendly.

Cons

Management doesn't do much outside of sending unrelated videos, sometimes suggesting content to write about, and occasionally creating a list of top-performing celebrities and article types. Management voices their frustration if your articles don't get enough views, forcing writers to only write about certain celebrities, pull controversial content from social media without any validity, and use misleading clickbait titles. You will be left alone to write your entire article from scratch while also finding images, sources, and titles, doing the editing yourself, creating the thumbnail image yourself, uploading the article, and even monitoring the analytics yourself without any guidance except for occasional criticism of a typo in a title or a call-out for a too-low viewed article. And as you're expected to write multiple articles a day, not only do you work overtime with no compensation, but the article quality suffers from the speed you have to write it.

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5.0
6 Aug 2019
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Pros

Great environment, lots of friendly co-workers and the team is really fun to work with.

Cons

You have to really be involved in K-Pop and spend a lot of time online, but that's the job, no real cons.

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1.0
5 Dec 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Close knit family-like working environment. Easy article claiming system. Organized rules and regulations for writing. Do well and you have opportunities to be promoted.

Cons

Severely underpaid. Was required to write 12 articles a day when one article takes about an hour to complete (incl. adding images, proofreading, research, and formatting). Basically had to work 12 hours a day without any breaks just to meet my quota while not even being paid the minimum wage. Several inconsistencies in management style made it difficult to know what upper management wanted exactly. Even when management told you that you were salary, you are NOT salary. Gave them three months notice for a one-month trip I had to take, but they refused to give it to me off. Instead I still had to work on my vacation and they underpaid me. When I told them I felt like this was too much work and too little pay, they ignored my message. I offered to write part-time, and they completely ignored my message again.

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