Getting a Job in Korea: A surviving game

Nowadays, many new wards are created in Koran; there are related with unemployment. For example, NG(No Graduation) student who postpone graduation till he/she gets a job, and “Li-GU-Back” which means 90 percent of people who are belonging to age between 20 to 30 don’t have a job. These new words explain well about the situation of employment of Korea. If a person want to get better job, he/she needs to beat almost 300 people, meaning to say, if a company wants to hire 30 employees, 9000 people apply to get a job. In this situation, if a person gets a job, people think that he is the winner of surviving game in the society. Based on the research of Korea government, 40% of people who are belonging to age between 20 to 30 don’t have Job. This phenomenon was begun since 1994. Unemployment in Korea is already one of the biggest threats of development of Korea.

To solve this problem, the Ministry of Labor in Korea supported 40 million dollars to universities and companies, but they wasted the money for Job fairs which were just temporary events, so it didn’t help to solve essential problem. Also Korea government spent four billion dollars for three years to solve this problem, it produced jobs in the part of social insurance. However, it was not helpful to find a job to the people because it was not related with their interest and talent.

Moreover, in August 2006, Korea government made a law that if a probationary employee works in a company for more than two years, a company must hire him to be a regular employee. It seems like good for the employees. However, companies took advantage of it; companies fired their probationary employees before they work for more than two years and find new one. Korea government intended to reduce probationary employees however among 1,500,000 employees, 60 percent of them,8,500,000, are probationary employees now, and probationary employees increased 20 percent than last year. As a result, People don’t want to have that kind of job; people want to have stable job. This is the one of the reason to increase unemployment’s rate.

We need to have more essential way for solving this problem. It needs to start with education system. More than 30 percent of fresh graduate students get a job which is not regarding with their course. The reason is that when they choose their course, they find what they can afford to enter university based on their grade; it is one of the causes for making problem to find a job. If a person has certain plan in life based on his/her interest and talent, he/ she doesn’t weed out in the society. Thus, people should avoid planning their future based on trend, incredible information or impulse decision. We need to educate people steadily. They can minimize their mistakes by systematic education and job training which really important project individually and nationally. They are the essential treatment for solving this problem.