Government Jobs Increasingly Popular as Unemployment Soars

SEOUL, Feb.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Unemployment in Korea is becoming worse year after year. The unemployment rate peaked last year at 9.2 percent. Influenced by the phenomenon, 222,650 young Koreans applied to take the national civil service exams, an all-time high in the number of applicants. The job market is as frozen as the recent [...]