FILE PHOTO: A Korean barbecue restaurant located in Majang Meat Market in Seoul, South Korea, July 11, 2025. labour productivity in domestic services, including IT and retail, was just 39.7 per cent of the manufacturing sector in 2024. - Reuters
SEOUL: More South Koreans with college degrees are now out of the workforce than those who only finished middle school.
It is the first time this has happened, and it reveals a growing fault line in the country’s labour market.
