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has been a year and a half since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in Korea.

It is a big worry that social polarization is getting worse in this corona situation.

Through continuous reporting, we would like to take a look at how the actual corona is shaking our society by each field, including income, property, and education.

Today (9th), the first issue is the job issue.



This is reporter Han Seung-goo.



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[jeongwonjae / freelance book designer: I am 13 years freelance book designer and illustrator, calligraphy Our activities]



[jeongwonjae / freelance book designer: Call for progress in this day and it was never any state.

It felt like everything had stopped.

It should be said that income has just plummeted.] As a



result of the SBS poll, 46.7% of all respondents said their income had decreased after Corona 19.



In particular, 56.7% of temporary and daily workers and 78.3% of self-employed workers were significantly higher than regular regular workers.



Young people who have to enter the job market face another anxiety.




The training necessary for the job was not carried out properly.



[Jin Hee-young/University student: I was planning to practice 160 hours a month. In the first week, the corona got so severe that I reduced direct practice to two weeks..]



Corona 19 shocked me in two aspects: job loss and consequent decrease in income.



According to the opinion poll, income has decreased by more than 50% compared to before the corona virus, and they have lost their jobs.



The social cost of disasters and quarantine was more borne by the vulnerable.



[Professor Kim Seok-ho / Director of Social Development Research Center, Seoul National University: The number of people who are discouraged and give up looking for a job is increasing if you look at the youth class or this side, so the supply of high-quality labor force accumulates a certain amount of income and assets, which in turn revitalizes the economy and industry. The model of a virtuous cycle that becomes a virtuous cycle becomes impossible at all.]



After experiencing large-scale epidemics such as SARS and H1N1, a more severe polarization occurred over the past five years, the IMF said.



Experts emphasize that it is necessary to prepare mid- to long-term financial resources such as social safety nets such as employment insurance for all citizens, expansion of vocational training, and tax reform for this purpose.



(Video coverage: Tae-Hoon Kim, VJ: Cho-Ah Kim, Video editing: Cho-A Kim, Writer: Yu-Mi Kim, CG: Sung-Yong Hong, Jae-Young Choi, Jae-Eun Seong, Si-Won Jeong, Ji-Hyeon Ahn)



▶ Go to SBS 2021 Corona Planning Opinion Survey Statistics