Assessing state-led contributions to job creation in public sector
- 5 years ago
사회복지사 사례로 본 정부 공공부문 일자리정책 소개 및 진단
More jobs are popping up in the social healthcare services sector in Korea.
This is thanks to government efforts to create more employment opportunities for young people... as well as to better cater to the needs of elders in an aging society.
Here's Kim Ji-yeon with an overall assessment of the situation.
31-year-old Kim Ji-ye has been a social healthcare worker at a privately-run senior care center franchise in Seoul for three months.
Her clients are mainly elders aged 65 or older, some of them struggling with degenerative diseases.
She listens to their day-to-day stories,... lends a helping hand with chores or assists them when they visit the doctor for a checkup.
She says her seven years of experience as an English tutor has helped her hone the people skills regarded as essential in her new line of work.
"A few years ago actually my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and my parents had taken care of her for until she passed away for almost 20 years. It was very mentally and physically challenging and devastating for the whole family to take care one sick patient. So I decided to be a social worker and help other suffering families as well."
Kim regards herself as one of the benefactors of the government's five-year roadmap on job creation.
The roadmap is in part devised to tackle Korea's real youth unemployment rate, currently standing at 22-point-7-percent, the highest level since related data was first compiled in 2015.
The roadmap is an integral part of the government's people-centered, income-led growth initiatives, and aims to create a combined 810-thousand public sector jobs by 2022.
Some experts, however, are critical of the government's focus and emphasized the need for more business-friendly policies.
"The private sector are the fundamental players in job creation. When companies flourish, they tend to hire more people. Drastic increases in the minimum wage for 2018 and 2019... and putting a 52-hour weekly cap on work hours are not seen pertinent to raising the competitiveness of industries."
Pundits say the prolonged slump in the shipbuilding and auto sectors, which have been undergoing restructuring, is seen as one of the main culprits for the employment shocks seen in the months of July and August this year.
Korea's jobless rate overall stood at 3-point-6-percent in September.
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.
More jobs are popping up in the social healthcare services sector in Korea.
This is thanks to government efforts to create more employment opportunities for young people... as well as to better cater to the needs of elders in an aging society.
Here's Kim Ji-yeon with an overall assessment of the situation.
31-year-old Kim Ji-ye has been a social healthcare worker at a privately-run senior care center franchise in Seoul for three months.
Her clients are mainly elders aged 65 or older, some of them struggling with degenerative diseases.
She listens to their day-to-day stories,... lends a helping hand with chores or assists them when they visit the doctor for a checkup.
She says her seven years of experience as an English tutor has helped her hone the people skills regarded as essential in her new line of work.
"A few years ago actually my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and my parents had taken care of her for until she passed away for almost 20 years. It was very mentally and physically challenging and devastating for the whole family to take care one sick patient. So I decided to be a social worker and help other suffering families as well."
Kim regards herself as one of the benefactors of the government's five-year roadmap on job creation.
The roadmap is in part devised to tackle Korea's real youth unemployment rate, currently standing at 22-point-7-percent, the highest level since related data was first compiled in 2015.
The roadmap is an integral part of the government's people-centered, income-led growth initiatives, and aims to create a combined 810-thousand public sector jobs by 2022.
Some experts, however, are critical of the government's focus and emphasized the need for more business-friendly policies.
"The private sector are the fundamental players in job creation. When companies flourish, they tend to hire more people. Drastic increases in the minimum wage for 2018 and 2019... and putting a 52-hour weekly cap on work hours are not seen pertinent to raising the competitiveness of industries."
Pundits say the prolonged slump in the shipbuilding and auto sectors, which have been undergoing restructuring, is seen as one of the main culprits for the employment shocks seen in the months of July and August this year.
Korea's jobless rate overall stood at 3-point-6-percent in September.
Kim Ji-yeon, Arirang News.