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number of employed people in September increased by more than 670,000 compared to the same month last year. There is a clear recovery trend in the face-to-face service industry as well as non-face-to-face services. The employment situation felt by the self-employed, daily workers, and young people, who are the vulnerable groups in employment, is still difficult.



Reporter Hyung-woo Hyung.



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number of employed people in September increased the most in seven and a half years.



As the number of employed people increased in all age groups except for those in their 30s, the government said that it had recovered to 99.8% just before Corona 19.



[Jeongdongmyeong / Statistics Social Statistics Bureau: despite the implementation quarantine rules and the non-face-to-face yiradeunga to digital transition, exports, base effects and employment is increasing for seven consecutive months]



non-face-to-face, the greater the gun digital services sector jobs, of course, Thanks to the expansion of the number of immunizations, the accommodation and food service industry, which was hit hard by COVID-19, also turned to increase.



However, the situation for the underemployable class shows no signs of improving.



Jobs continued to decline in wholesale and retail, manufacturing, arts and sports-related sectors, and the number of self-employed people with employees in particular fell for the 34th straight month.



[Bae Seong-hwan / Grocery wholesale business: It is too much for one person, the proportion of labor costs. So we are also making a plan, to reduce (employee).] Although the number of



youth employment has increased for seven consecutive months, the actual experience of young people is different.



According to a survey by the Korea Economic Research Institute, 65% of university graduates in their third or fourth year virtually gave up looking for a job even in the second half of this year, and only 1 in 10 were actively looking for work.



[Kim Yong-chun / Head of Employment Policy Team, Korea Economic Research Institute: Because job-seeking students who were unable to find a job last year are competing this year as well.

It will take some time to feel (recovery of employment).] As the



structural change to a non-face-to-face, digital industry after Corona 19 is taking a toll on the vulnerable in employment, it is also necessary to prepare countermeasures.



(Video coverage: Park Hyun-chul, video editing: Kim Jong-woo)