South Korean graduates look to Japan to beat job shortage at home
Last year, 2,257 young South Koreans took jobs in Japan, marking a 47 per cent jump from 2024 and making Japan their top work destination.
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When Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul’s Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean college’s brightest graduates struggled to land a job.
So in 2019 she launched a service to connect South Korean jobseekers with Japanese employers.
“I was surprised that they couldn’t find a job because they were so smart,” the 35-year-old said in Seoul at a two-day job fair organised by KOREC, her start-up, last month. “Many could speak Japanese, so I thought it might be better for them to go to Japan.
South Korean youth face a chronic shortage of desirable entry-level jobs, as big name employers such as Samsung prefer to hire experienced workers and many older people remain in their jobs.
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