분야
docx2.Research
I. Structural Factors that make the 880 thousand generation
II. The sociological implications on the life course of 880-thousand won generations
3.Conclusion
Kim Ji yeong, an ordinary Korean woman who graduated from college in Busan in the year 2003, was never able to get a permanent job. After graduating she became a labor worker under contract which was the position of a secretary for a steel company. However, she was excluded from the list of people who were to be promoted to permanent job when the revision of the Labor Law happened. The law enforced companies to upgrade the contract worker’s job status to permanent when he or she had worked at the workplace for more than two years. Her employer decided to lay her off as the two year deadline was approaching instead of giving her a permanent job. Kim’s story is nothing new among young Korean jobseekers. These cases for young people are not an individual matter, but a general phenomenon these days in Korea.
Like shown in the statistics above, unemployment of youth is increasing every year. In the contrast between ages, 20-30 shows that sharply decreased employment rates than other age groups. At the same time when looking at the statistics of the youth, it shows that the rate of unemployment for the ages between 15 and 29 has increased from 7.7% to 10.0%. On the one hand, the number of jobless college graduates was a total of 346,000 last year, the highest ever since the agency compiling data on unemployment in the year 2000. The unemployment rate currently is 3.5%, but the youth unemployment (age 15-30) is more than 8.0 % of it. Although 24,300 new jobs were created in April 2012, nearly 70 percent of them went to people in their 40s to 60s. Hence, youth unemployment continues to be a problem. The unemployment rate of people between the age of 15 and 29 was tallied at 8.7 percent, 0.1 percentage higher compared to the same month last year.