Social Affairs
Seoul sees unemployment hit 280,000
March 23, 2016
Seoul saw its number of unemployed people reach 286,000 February, a 13.1 percent annual rise, data showed Tuesday.According to Gyeongin Regional office of Statistics, Seoul’s unemployment rate reached 5.3 percent, compared to 4.7 percent in February 2015. The employment rate was 59.4 percent, slipping by 0.2 percentage points from a year before. The data was collected by surveying 4,100 households in Seoul and those aged 15 or older, excluding soldiers in service, public service workers and inma