Worrying unemployment figures among youth: Korea Herald


Workers rally for improvement of working conditions in Seoul on June 15, 2021. - AFP

SEOUL (The Korea Herald/ANN): A string of data released last week showed structural deterioration in South Korea's unemployment problem, heightening the need for a shift in the government's policy efforts toward job creation.

The number of discouraged workers in the country stood at 583,000 in June, up 46,000 from a year earlier, according to figures from Statistics Korea.

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