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Reporter Kwon Ae-ri's friendly economic time.
Reporter Kwon, you said that our economy is showing some degree of recovery after the second quarter, but looking at the job statistics last month, it doesn't seem like that.
In six months now, the number of employed has decreased the most.
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Yes, there are seldom any signs of recovery in jobs.
Compared to last year's October, the number of employed people overall decreased by 421,000.
This is the largest decline in six months since April.
Since January 2009, right after the financial crisis, the number of employed has declined in this way for as many as eight months in a row, and the decline has been the longest since then.
You can think of a number of factors.
First, it should be said that it has not yet escaped from the effects of the re-proliferation of Corona 19.
After raising the level of quarantine since mid-August, it has returned to the level of distancing from the 12th of last month after almost two months. There is.
There were some people who wanted to go outside quickly because the activity for two months had contracted more than in the first half, but is it really okay? It is estimated that many people hesitate to hear.
So, even if distance is lowered again, jobs for people in related fields will inevitably decrease.
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aftermath of Corona 19 is prolonged, the difficulty is increasing. In a way, it seems to be such a situation that brings about a vicious cycle.
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Yes, but the service industries like I just mentioned are expected to recover little by little in the future if the current level of quarantine can be maintained.
There is also a jet lag in recovery.
In particular, the job situation is always compared with the same month a year ago, and the statistics office analyzes that there are some things that look worse compared to that time because the job situation was relatively good last October.
The trend is to say that last month was definitely better than the previous September.
However, in the manufacturing industry, which is the sector that provides quality jobs most reliably, the problem is that the extent of job decline is clearly increasing.
As I just said, jobs in the manufacturing industry are like the backbone of our job market, and there are many good jobs, but once they collapse, recovery is slow.
Although exports have recently been improving, the statistics office explains that the manufacturing industry is not enough to escape from the accumulated shock.
Moreover, especially in the manufacturing sector, even last year before the coronavirus, jobs were reduced, which was a problem.
If the bad period is short, it will hold on.
However, as the sluggishness accumulates for the second year, karma that keeps reducing the number of workers continues to appear.
For example, as the economic blockade in Europe is prolonged, exports of automobiles and trailers are becoming less, but automobiles are a field in which many jobs are created with many connected parts and processes.
Jobs in intertwined places can also disappear.
By generation, it is also noticeable that the job situation in the 20s is not particularly good.
The employment rate for both men and women has dropped by more than 3% compared to a year ago, which shows the number of people employed relative to the total population of that age group.
Since the situation has not been good throughout this year, there are many places that both large companies and small and medium-sized companies have reduced or delayed hiring new employees.
If it gets better, I'll pick it up, but for the job seekers who waited for a job posting to the company they wanted to go to, it would be a big blow.
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How well to endure, I think I will have to endure it for a while.
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Yes, in fact, the current problems can disappear only when the world returns to normal social life before the coronavirus.
It doesn't mean that only us are good.
People who bought our goods and visited our country should recover together.
Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company, once announced that it would release a vaccine soon, giving hope, but anyway, until the point where the corona epidemic can be ended, we should be able to minimize the situation where we have to put a strong limit on economic activity.
The re-proliferation after August and the economy have clearly shown how terrifying it is.
And secondly, policies and budgets must be effectively put into efforts to survive this period.
In particular, it is time to really desperately need policy capabilities to help intensively to endure this period in the latter by well discriminating between industries and jobs that were originally inadequate from those that were previously insolvent and those that would have been strong even today if it was not for Corona.