There are many ways to offer official development assistance (ODA) to another country, but not many people know that statistical know-how can be one of those ways.
Park Moon-shik, a 56-year-old office worker, expresses his dismay over the absence of banks offering manageable borrowing rates tailored specifically for his age group. He laments the challenge of securing a loan to assist in purchasing a home.
Among newly hired employees in Korea in 2023, 50.5 percent were college graduates. Of the 28.41 million people newly hired across the country, 14.36 million had a higher education degree, according to the Korean Statistical Information Service run by Statistics Korea. The figure includes graduates from two-year college courses and those with postgraduate degrees. The number of new employees with tertiary education de.
Young Koreans are increasingly shunning working for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) despite the falling employment rate of young people that inched down 0.3 percentage points year-on-year to 45.9 percent in March.
The number of employed Korean women has reached a record high, but the country is still far from improving the wage gap between men and women, which is the worst in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).