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same with the young people of Korea.
Rather than the unbelievable 3.1
As a result of the economic crisis, the
percentrateofjoblessness,thereismore
6
9%
5%
door to employment has been become
serious problem. The rate of joblessness
5
narrow at big corporations and small.
amongyoungpeople(thoseunderthirty)
4
11%
Young people, many being without
is 7 percent. Furthermore, if this is
ThePeriodofJob
jobs, cannot contribute to help change
calculatedincludingthepeoplewhogive
Searchingunder30
1
3
53%
society in good and constructive ways.
up looking for jobs, this rate is possibly
10%
Aboveall,theyfinditdifficulttosurvive
over10percent.
because they cannot earn money. The
2
12%
situation today in Korea is that too
TheProblemafterBeing
Over3Years
manyyoungpeopleareunemployedand
Employed
Over2Year,Under3Year
because of this, their concern is not the
The average period for seeking a job
Over1Year,Under2Year
Over6Month,Under1Year
bettermentofsocietybutgettingajobso
is under eleven months. This means
Over3Month,Under6Month
theycangetthemoneytheyneedjustto
that one out of four young people are
Under3Month
live.
searchingforjobsforoverayear.There
is a saying that graduation does not
5
1
guarantee employment. This is not the
20.2%
DoNotJudgeaBookbyItsCover
25.9%
4
The official report on the economy of
end. What really becomes the problem
0.5%
June 2008 shows that the rate of jobless
istheamountoftimeapersonhasleftto
TheFirstOccupation
ofWorkersunder30
youth is 3.1 percent. However, the data
work after getting a job is not that long.
is not an accurate reflection of this
In other words, though one person gets
3
2
problem. Among the Organization for
hired, he or she does not work at that
25.9%
27.5%
EconomicCooperationandDevelopment
companyforalongtime.Thisisbecaus
SimpleLabour
countries, Korea has the lowest
ethisisthefirstjobforayoungperson.
AgricultureandFishery
percentage of joblessness, but people
In Korea, the likelihood that graduates
ServiceMarketing
BusinessWork
who give up searching for a job are not
have of getting a job at one of the big
ProfessionalTechnicandAdministration
counted this calculation. In 1999, there
companiessuchasSamsungorHyundai
were over 1,361,000 jobless youths. In
is not very good. So many young
5
2008, that number rose to 1,456,000. If
peopledecidetolookforjobsatsmaller
19.6%
thesecalculationsincludedthisincrease,
companies. As a result, the first job of
1
4
theratewouldbewellover3.1percent.
a young person may not be their ideal
0.4%
30.9%
TheStatusofWorkers'
job, and inevitably they begin looking
OccupationalFields
for another job at a company with more
3
under30
MoreandMorePeopleareGiving
19.1%
prestige. Even if a person finds a better
upLookingforJobs
In terms of an employer, it makes
job, they cannot get enough salary at
2
29.9%
sense to decrease the cost of marketing
the beginning of work. 40 percent of
SimpleLabour
and employment in order to cut the
the young people at their first or second
AgricultureandFishery
ServiceMarketing
costs of the enterprise. This trend,
job cannot but accept the low and
BusinessWork
however, forces many people to give
unreasonablesalary.
ProfessionalTechnicandAdministration
up their search for jobs. The report of
SurveyofKoreaNationalStatisticalOffice,2008
the Korea National Statistical Office
TheProblemofBeingYoungin
suggests that the number of people who
Thatis,ayoungpersoncannotlether-or-
Korea
are not participating in the economy is
If a young person is satisfied with her-
himselfbecomeasalariedemployeeina
increasing,whichmeanstherearefewer
or-his first job at a big company, he-or-
small company. Young people who find
people who are helping to make Korea
shemuststaylateandworkhard.Onthe
themselvesinsituationslikethisarenot
economicallystrong.
other hand, in the case of young person
betteroffbecauseevensmallcompanies
whocouldnotfindsatisfactionwithher-
do not guarantee high salaries or steady
or-his job, he-or-she tries over and over
work.
YoungPeopleHaveBecomethe
again to get a job with higher status.
CenteroftheJobless
richard@hufs.ac.kr
SEPTEMBER 2009

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