The jobs – and ageing faces – behind South Korea’s record low employment numbers
Published by
Reuters

By Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) – At age 69, Kim Jung-mi holds three jobs: she spends three hours getting a two-year old home from kindergarten every weekday for $9 per hour, then washes vegetables at a store that sells kimchi. Occasionally, she walks her neighbour’s dog. That kind of gig work among elderly people has helped South Korea to log a record-setting run of low unemployment through February, at 2.7%, with almost half of the job increases driven by people 60 and older. Although the drift to low-paid, part-time work is a global phenomenon, it has put South Korea at the top of OECD’s sca…

Read More

Recent POSTS

advertisement

ADVERTISEMENT