Spike in Part-Time Jobs for Less Than 15 Hours a Week
19 March, 2019
The number of part-time workers who work less than 15 hours per week rose 11.3 percent last year to 756,000 after a drastic hike in the minimum wage.
According to a study by the state-run Korea Labor Institute out Sunday, 56.6 percent of the workers were over 60 and 49.3 percent worked in unskilled jobs.
They made up 3.8 percent of the all paid workers, the highest proportion since relevant statistics began in 2003.
The institute analyzed data from Statistics Korea collected in August last year.
The rise largely occurred in low-paid unskilled jobs, whose number jumped from 293,000 to 373,000 over the same period, while there was no noticeable change in the professional, service and sales sectors.
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