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2 stories tagged “unemployment”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Youth joblessness fell — good news, or fewer looking?
Korea's youth jobless rate fell from 9.8% in 2016 to 6.1% in 2025. A falling rate sounds like good news — but the same number falls whether young people find work or simply stop looking. One rate cannot tell the two apart.
Korea's youth unemployment has quietly fallen since 2016
Korea's youth (15–29) jobless rate peaked at 9.8% in 2016 and fell to 6.1% by 2025 — about twice the national rate. But a falling rate is not only good news.