SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment rate of students with bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degrees fell to a record low last year as the COVID-19 pandemic dealt a severe blow to job markets, government statistics showed Monday. Their employment rate stood at 65.1 percent last year, the lowest since the education ministry started [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has larger class sizes and lower employment rates among the highly educated than Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) averages, the education ministry said Friday. According to the latest edition of the OECD’s “Education at a Glance,” released by the Ministry of Education, elementary and middle [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The employment rate of graduates of domestic colleges and graduate schools fell to 66.2 percent in 2017, a report by the Ministry of Education and the Korean Educational Development Institute said Thursday. Last year’s employment rate of the highly educated graduates was the lowest since the ministry and the [...]
SEJONG, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of unemployed college graduates in South Korea hit a record high in May, government data showed Saturday, in the latest sign of a tightened job market for young adults. The number of jobless people with bachelor’s degrees and above reached 402,000 in May, up 76,000 from a [...]
SEJONG, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The rate of marriages of highly educated women has dropped sharply over the past 15 years amid the country’s late- and non-marriage trend, government data showed Tuesday. Out of 1,000 women who graduated from college-level or higher educational institutions, 28.6 tied the knot in 2015, compared with 41.2 cases [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of college graduates outside the labor force has more than doubled over the past 15 years due to a rise in those who gave up looking for jobs amid a prolonged economic slump, government data showed Monday. South Korean college graduates who are neither employed nor unemployed [...]