[Economy 365]
The number of employed people increased by more than 700,000 last month compared to a year ago, but the rate of increase slowed for the fourth month.
According to a survey by the National Statistical Office, the number of employed people last month was 28,389,000, an increase of 707,000 from a year ago.
As of the same month, it was the largest increase in 23 years since September 1999, and the increase in employment has continued for 19 months.
However, the rate of increase decreased for the fourth month, and more than half of the new employed were those aged 60 or older.
The number of short-term workers working less than 18 hours per week hit an all-time high as of September.
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As the deposit interest rate rose sharply due to the continuous increase in the base rate, close to KRW 33 trillion of market funds flowed into time deposits in the banking sector last month.
The Bank of Korea (BOK) announced that as of the end of last month, the deposit balance of depository banks stood at 225.4 trillion won, up 36.4 trillion won from the end of August.
In particular, time deposits surged by KRW 32.5 trillion, the largest monthly increase since statistics began to be compiled in January 2002.
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More than half of senior government officials at the Vice Minister level or higher, Yoon Seok-yeol, own stocks of listed companies, and Samsung Electronics is the most preferred stock.
Leaders Index, a research institute for corporate analysis, analyzed the stocks held by 118 senior officials at the level of the vice minister or higher who disclosed their wealth, and found that 67 people held listed stocks in the name of themselves, their spouses, or their children.
The highest number of senior officials with Samsung Electronics stocks was 60, with 24,900 Samsung Electronics stocks held by them.
The next preferred stock was Kakao, followed by Naver, Apple, and Nvidia.