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2020 will be remembered as a year people want to forget in the future.
Especially for young people who have to go out to society and dream of their future, this year was even more severe.
There were many young people who hung up on various jobs to increase their income, and also made investments out of debt.
We asked people in their 20s and 30s across the country how this year was and what they need in the future.
Reporters Jung Hye-kyung and Choi Jae-young deliver the results of the poll.
<Reporter Jung Hye-kyung>
[Yoo-rim Bae/Young N-jap-le: My job is a clerical worker for 8 years.
As a side
job
, a café barista, an art instructor, and a performing artist, I run a channel on YouTube.]
We call 30-year-old Bae Yoo-rim, who is working on five kinds of jobs, as'N Go To Go'.
The word'N', which means several, and the English word'Job,' which means work, are affixed. It means a person who makes money while doing various jobs.
Bae earns the most from a job he goes out three times a week, but he needs the rest of his work to make a living.
[Bae Yoo-rim/Youth N: I have a lot of anxiety about the future.
While attending the Department of Arts and Psychotherapy, I'm also attending cyber college and I'm preparing for Pilates certification.]
34-year-old Kim Dong-myeong, who works as a substitute driving business with his wife after work, is also a living N job.
The main job is to transport interior materials, but it is not enough to cover household savings.
[Kim Dong-myeong/Young N catching up: I set the (working) time until 12 o'clock when the (evening) comes out at 7 o'clock, but calls have decreased a lot.
It has dropped completely to almost one-third.]
SBS asked 800 people in their twenties, thirties, and nations across the country with the Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly for their perceptions of the economic reality and future.
Even if they had a full-time job, 37.5% of respondents said they would do another job, that is, become an N job.
There were responses of self-actualization, but there were many more reasons for maintaining a living.
In recent years, N-japler is often described as a symbol of self-realization, but in fact, for many young people, N-jap-rao means a desperate livelihood.
[Kim Dong-myeong/Youth N job: I think there are not many professionals who can make money while enjoying what they want to do.
Because, just to eat and live.
Because you shouldn't do this.]
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<Reporter Jae-
young
Choi>
[Young stock investor: It must have started after May.]
[Kim Tae-young/young stock investor: I learned that there will be some limitations with only salary.]
[ Young-ik Kim/Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Sogang University: In March, new accounts increased sharply.
Twenties and thirties account for more than half of the account opening.]
[Kim Young-ik/Professor, Sogang University Graduate School of Economics: Looking at the rate of return, the twenties are the lowest.
11% in their 20s and 24% in their 60s.] In their
20s, who started investing in stocks this year, the return was only half of those in their 50s.
[Kim Young-ik/Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Sogang University: Then why did those in their twenties have a low rate of return? Looking at the characteristics, the turnover rate was very high.
It means that those in their twenties made short-term investments.]
Those in their
20s
and 30s, who were relatively
short
of accumulated assets, owed a lot to their investments.
[Kim Tae-young / 20th stock investor: I am paying (debt) because of lack of initial funding.]
[Young stock investor: Stock up with debt as much as possible...
]
[Sewoon Hwang / Research Fellow, Capital Market Research Institute: Problems of relatively increasing the leverage ratio in Danta have been met.
In a way that makes this dangerous thing even more dangerous...
] As a
result of the SBS poll, more than 40% of those in their 20s and 30s said they were already doing financial technology with stocks or real estate, and 12% said they started financial technology this year.
[Young stock investor: I wonder if you're dragging stocks because of anxiety.
Because the present and the future are anxious...
.]
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<Reporter Jung Hye-kyung>
As of December 2020, the government and local governments have more than 2,30 policies related to youth.
However, in our poll, as many as 68% of young people say they don't know or don't know these policies at all.
What should I do? Let's look at the story of a young man who thought about young people's youth policy, which was discovered through public opinion polls.
Most of the 30-year-old Ju Dabin's 20s was a desperate time to find a place to live.
It is still alive 7 years ago when I had to come to a shellfish restaurant in Eulwang-ri, Incheon, because there was no place to stay.
[Yu Dabin: I searched for room and board provided in the newspaper where there is a job offer, and I found out on the same day, and I called and came in.
I thought it was the safest place I could go right away.]
The housing problem that is an obstacle to youth independence.
This is a problem that the most young people cited as the most desperate for government support.
[Yu Dabin: I can't get help.
I thought that I would have to find my own way to live.]
After that, Yoo set up a residence in Gosiwon, but this time he could not find a job to pay for the rent.
[Yu Dabin: Even though I continued to apply, I couldn't contact you, and I think I put in my resume for about 900 times.] In
fact, the anxiety that young Koreans feel, at the center of it, is the problem of employment and unstable jobs.
In particular, there is anxiety that there will be no room for themselves as the economic downturn continues.
Yoo, however, found some stability as he received the government's youth allowance this year.
[Yu Dabin: As soon as I received the (Youth Allowance), I cried very much, and (at the Youth Allowance Meeting) gave me a way to raise a deposit at a low interest rate.
With that deposit, I moved to a house, a studio, and a one-room house where I live.] The
young people preferred this direct support method, which is conducive to livelihoods and housing.
The dark and chaotic 2020 has come.
Half of the young people surveyed believed that the future would be better.
(Video coverage: Lee Byung-ju, video editing: Won-hee Won, CG: Hong Seong-yong, Choi Jae-young, Lee Ye-jeong, Seong Jae-eun, Jeong Si-won, VJ: Jeong Young-sam, Jeong Han-wook, Kim Cho-ah)
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