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Content creators such as YouTube have risen to third place in the future.
In the past, 'scientists', who were often at the top, were pushed down to 13th, which was lower than the bakery.
The Ministry of Education and the Korea Vocational Competency Development Center held a total of 24,783 elementary, middle, and high school students nationwide, 16,955 parents, and 2,800 teachers. The results of the Secondary Career Education Survey were announced on the 10th.
The number one elementary school hopeful job was 'Athletes' this year, following last year.
'Teacher', which was the first place in 2007-2011 and 2013-2017, remained in the second place (6.9%) as last year.
The 3rd place in elementary school hopeful jobs was occupied by creators (youtubers, BJs, streamers, etc.).
5.7% of respondents chose
Youtuber climbed two steps in one year after ranking first in the top 10 for the first time in the survey last year.
The 4th to 11th were 'doctor', 'cook (cook)', 'pro gamer', 'police officer', 'legal expert', 'singer', 'beauty designer', and 'cartoon artist'.
In the past, the scientists, who frequently ranked in the top ten, ranked 12th last year, but this year they fell to the 13th place due to the bakery and bakery.
Among middle and high school students, there was a high preference for stable and professional jobs such as teachers and police officers.
Secondary school students were all teachers in the first place.
In the case of middle school students, next to teachers, doctors, police officers, athletes, beauty designers, cooks, soldiers, civil servants, computer engineers (software developers), and nurses It was very popular.
For high school students, 'police officer', 'nurse', 'computer engineer', 'soldier', 'life and natural scientist and researcher', 'architecture designer (architectural designer)', 'aircraft crew member', 'public servant', 'manager' ) 'Was in the top ten.
However, when comparing the 2009 and 2019 survey results, the percentage of middle school students who selected 'teacher' as their future hope decreased from 18.1% to 10.9%, and the percentage of high school students from 12.4% to 7.4%.
The Ministry of Education explained, "Because the job career has diversified more than ten years ago," the cumulative percentage of the top ten jobs is decreasing.
Among elementary school students, 'creator' and 'life and natural scientist', middle school students '' psychologist '(therapist),' writer and illustrator ', and high school students' chemical engineers and marketing and public relations specialists Has emerged as a hopeful job.
Students who said they had a desired job said about 50% of the reasons why they chose the job because 'I like it' and about 20% 'I think I can do it well'.
When asked how often they have career-related conversations with their parents, the highest percentage of elementary school students was 2-3 times a week (23.8%), high school students were once a week (24.8%), and middle school students were almost daily (27.7%).
The Ministry of Education interpreted that the link between the free middle school and free school system and the career education program was activated, which led to an increase in the number of students who explored careers and communicated with their parents.
However, the percentage of students who did not answer the desired job was the highest with 28.1%.
12.8% of elementary school students and 20.5% of high school students said they do not yet have a desired job.
Career teachers and school administrators pointed out that it is necessary to secure more career education personnel and increase budgets to promote career education.
The average career education budget for each student was only 29,900 won per year for elementary school, 69,600 won for middle school, and 46,200 won for high school.
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