{"id":2987734,"date":"2024-08-19T03:07:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=2987734"},"modified":"2024-08-20T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:53:26","slug":"more-young-koreans-give-up-on-finding-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2024\/08\/more-young-koreans-give-up-on-finding-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"More young Koreans give up on finding a job"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe number of young people not in education, employment or training was the highest last month for any July on record, revealing South Korea\u2019s deepening troubles in the labor market.
The number of NEET Koreans between the age of 15 and 29 who were not actively seeking work stood at 443,000 in July, up 42,000 on-year, according to data from Statistics Korea.
The figure had stayed below 300,000 between 2013 and 2017, before surpassing it in 2018. It peaked at 441,000 in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic but dropped to 361,000 in the following year. But it had rebounded since then.<\/p>\n