Number of working Korean women in 30s surges amid low fertility rate Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
The recent trend of an increase in the proportion of working women in their 30s was primarily due to a reduction in the number of women with children, according to a report released Monday by the Korea Development Institute, a South Korean state-run think tank. Kim Ji-yeon, a researcher at the KDI, noted that although the drop in the number of women in their 30s that have children may seem like a positive factor in t.
Manufacturing jobs in the second quarter of 2023 accounted for 15.5 percent of jobs across all industries in Korea, a record low for the past 10 years, as export growth decelerates and the population shrinks at a faster pace, data showed on Monday.
Fewer Koreans in their 20s are getting new jobs but their employment rate is rising, in the face of a population decline that “misleadingly” represents a tough job market for young people.