South Korea: Employment difficulties in South Korea: Seoul “KOREC”

South Korea: Employment difficulties in South Korea: Seoul “KOREC”

Soul “KOREC”:

This is Seoul.

All the students are Korean.

In recent years, the number of students who want to get a job in Japan is increasing rapidly.

In December 2020, I visited “KOREC”, which conducts a job placement business in Japan in Sinchon, Seoul.

Employment at a Japanese company:

At KOREC

For Korean job hunters
Providing employment information for Japanese companies
We provide education on job hunting.

Human Resources Development Service of Korea:

In 2015, 632 people got a job at a Japanese company from South Korea.

In 2019, that number has nearly quadrupled to 2469.

In 2020, the spread of coronavirus infection drastically reduced private traffic between the two countries.

However, the number of applicants for employment in Japan has not decreased.

Mainichi newspaper

https://mainichi.jp/premier/politics/articles/20201231/pol/00m/010/005000c

Employment difficulties in South Korea, Japan’s “potential recruitment” is attractive

KOREC:

Representative Moe Kasugai (29) launched the business in 2017 and incorporated it in 2019.

Since the incorporation, the number of job hunting students who have attended the KOREC seminar has risen to about 200, and a total of more than 300 have been offered.

The seminar I visited lasted about 2 hours and was an introductory course for beginners in job hunting.

Students can correct their own PR sentences with each other,
The instructor explained important words in job hunting.
The instructor’s explanations and the sentences written by the students are all in Japanese.

Employment difficulties in Korea:

We talked to the students who attended the seminar.

“It’s hard to get a job anyway. It’s normal to get a job for 3-4 years (in Korea).”

In 2018, the employment rate of university students in South Korea was only 64.2%.

Compared to the employment rate of 98% in Japan (graduated in the spring of 20), the low rate stands out.

Existence of “specs”:

As a background, all the participants talked about the difficulty of “specs”.

To get a job in Korea, you need a qualification and background to show your abilities.

We call them specs.

Korea is an academic society:

Since Korea has a higher educational background than Japan, the name of the university is important first.

On top of that

TOEIC 800 points for science, 900 points or more for humanities
Computer utilization ability test
It is at least necessary to have a Korean history / national examination.
Recently, many people take the Chinese test “HSK”.

Korea Economic Research Institute:

The unemployment rate for young Koreans (15-29 years old) in 2019 will reach 8.9%.

Japan’s unemployment rate in 2019 is only 3.6%.

As of May 2020, 1.66 million unemployed graduates from the final school were the highest ever since 2007.

Japan’s “potential adoption”:

Isn’t it even harder to get a job abroad than to get a job in your own country?

I asked the job hunters why.

It turned out that many people are attracted to the “potential recruitment” of Japanese companies.

For South Korea:

In South Korea, it is common to hire marketing and sales positions for each job.

For this reason, university majors and qualifications are important.

People with specialized knowledge and abilities in the job are preferentially hired.

in Japan’s case:

On the other hand, in the case of Japan, many companies hire employees as general employees and then train them after joining the company.

In other words, there is a chance to get a job regardless of the major at the university.

Japanese companies see not only their own specifications but also their potential.

It was said that Japanese companies are attractive to Korean job hunters.

Yahoo! News

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a23d29ffe1d1116cc24e46c3ea35c0c31aae92bb

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