A Korean Job Site Will Check Your Saju Against Samsung's
Incruit, a South Korean job portal, now casts charts from employers' founding dates and scores your compatibility, stressing that no LLM is involved and results never change. Five of the eight featured companies get the exact same personality.
Open the Samsung Electronics page in the fortune section of Incruit, one of South Korea's job portals, and the first thing you see is a card tagged for the second-half 2026 hiring season. Below it sit Samsung's headcount, its average salary and tips for each job track. Below that is a form asking for your birth date and, if you know it, your birth hour. Fill it in and the site casts a chart for the company itself, using Samsung Electronics' founding date of January 13, 1969, then compares it with yours to score how well you and the company fit and which days suit an interview. The Financial News reported on September 29 that Incruit had rebuilt its "job fortune" section for Korea's autumn recruiting season, adding a company-compatibility feature that links each reading to that employer's job information and openings. The launch page features eight employers: Korail, Hyundai Motor, Samsung Electronics, Kakao, LG Electronics, CJ Olive Young, Naver and SK hynix.
Saju, the Korean name for the four-pillars system known in Chinese as BaZi, reads a person from the year, month, day and hour of birth. Incruit now applies it to nearly every step of a job search. There is a five-card tarot spread for people waiting on interview results or weighing a job change, a calendar of auspicious interview and start dates for the month, a "reset timing" reading for junior employees thinking about quitting and applying again as new graduates, coworker compatibility, a match between your chart and your university major, and a saju-derived "office MBTI" with 16 types. Log in and your birth details are stored, so the readings load instantly next time. The audience is there: Money Today, citing a 1,200-person survey by the research firm Trend Monitor, reported that 70% of Koreans in their 20s and 72% in their 30s had used some form of fortune-telling in the past year.
The feature Incruit puts forward most clearly is that no AI is involved. At the bottom of every company page, a note explains that compatibility scores come from a "deterministic engine" that compares the two charts' day stems, day branches and pillar interactions, and that because no large language model is used, the same input always produces the same result. The career-strengths page says it more plainly: these are calculated readings, not fortunes made up by AI. That pitch lands in a particular moment. Young Koreans have been trading prompts for getting ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude to read their saju, and when the Financial News covered the trend on September 25 it warned that the same birth details can yield different readings depending on the model and the prompt. A job seeker using Incruit at least won't refresh the page and find Samsung has gone from a good match to a bad one.
Consistent is not the same as informative, though. The same note says each company's "organizational DNA" and ideal-candidate profile are read from a single element of its chart: the day pillar of its founding date. Samsung Electronics was founded on a mu-ja day, Kakao and SK hynix on mu-in days, LG Electronics on a gi-hae day and CJ Olive Young on a mu-sin day. Every one of those day stems belongs to the earth element, so all five companies get the identical paragraph, word for word: a "stable, trustworthy organization" that values steadiness over big swings, looking for "precise, responsible" people. We recalculated all eight founding dates against a standard sexagenary calendar, and Incruit's day pillars are correct. The result that stands out is Kakao. Its card on the launch page describes a people-first company where experimentation is routine, but its chart describes one that prefers steadiness. Korail and Naver happen to share an eul-yu day, so they share a "growth and challenge" profile too.
The birthdays are worth a look as well. Incruit says the founding dates, like the headcounts and salaries, come from its own company database and its Sinip Navi graduate-hiring service. By those records Korail was born on New Year's Day 2005, LG Electronics on April 1, 2002, CJ Olive Young on November 7, 2019, and SK hynix on October 15, 1949. A company's chart depends on whichever date is on file, and a restructuring, spin-off or merger can give it a new one.
Incruit doesn't ask anyone to take this too seriously. The last line on every company page says the compatibility result is saju-based reference content and does not reflect actual hiring chances or any official view of the employer. So is it any use? As a way to kill time during hiring season, sure. As a guide to where to apply, no: a company's personality comes from one character of its founding date, and five of eight big employers came out as the same one. The useful part is elsewhere on the same page. Samsung Electronics lists 130,261 employees and an average salary of 125.67 million won, advises semiconductor applicants to show experience improving yield and mass production, not just performance, and links to the company's hiring information. If you want to know whether you and Samsung are a fit, start there.