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Article: More unemployed South Koreans quit job-hunting
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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More unemployed South Koreans quit job-hunting
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Depressed job markets affected by
slumping economic conditions are driving greater number of
unemployed people in South Korea to give up job hunting, Korea
Herald reported Wednesday.
According to the National Statistical Office (NSO), the number of
people who quit finding jobs jumped 15.5 percent from a year ago to
approximately 120,000 individuals.
Since last February, when the number of unemployed who gave up on
job-seeking had grown by 3,000, the figure had been falling for 13
month until April this year, the NSO said.
However, the number of people quitting job-seeking picked up
again in May reaching 7,500. In ...
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