Someone who is fast and skillful… A unique part-time job on the carrot market

“I hope you are well organized. Someone who can do it quickly and skillfully. I want five hours a day. You do it with me. The hourly wage is 10,000 won.”

Carrot Market, a second-hand trading platform that has a strong regional-based community character, is attracting attention as a channel for finding and finding jobs for Chuseok.

According to Carrot Market on the 18th, many job postings were posted in the ‘neighborhood part-timer’ category on the platform asking for a short-term part-time job for the Chuseok holiday. In response, Carrot Market is operating a ‘Chuseok Part-timer’ channel that collects short-term part-time jobs for Chuseok by the 26th so that it can be easily viewed by neighborhood.

Carrot Market user A sought a part-time job on the 20th and 22nd on the condition of ‘exercise the dog and feed the dog’. He wrote, “I have two Yorkshire terriers. Is there anyone who can come and exercise the dog for about an hour and take care of food? The hourly wage is 15,000 won.”

As it was a holiday, there were also articles asking for someone to help me with the Jeon-chigi or Bee-cho. Mr. B put forward the condition, “If you work at a side dish store during the holidays, you will receive 12,000 won an hour. We also comply with the Labor Standards Act.” Another user bets 80,000 won a day, saying, “Beolcho part-timer, let’s finish it quickly.”

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As interest in home hygiene has increased due to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), there have also been articles asking for someone to clean up with. Carrot Market user C said, “I hope you are very good at organizing. I am looking for someone who can do it quickly and skillfully.” “I can’t even organize and I can’t clean. It’s impossible to do it in one day, so I want to do it 5 hours a day.” specific conditions were presented. The hourly wage for this job is Rs.

As such, the carrot market is changing from a used goods trading platform to a community that shares local information including job postings and job postings. The number of subscribers is 20 million, and the number of weekly users (WAU) has surpassed 10 million. Carrot Market attracted 178.9 billion won of Series D investment last month.

Monthly app usage time, which is used as an application (app) activation figure, is also long. According to App Annie, a data research institute, the average monthly usage time of carrot market users per person as of July was 2 hours and 2 minutes, which is more than twice that of major overseas hyperlocal services.

Carrot Market plans to inject new investment funds into technological advancement, hiring manpower for business expansion, expansion into overseas markets, and strengthening domestic and overseas marketing. In the second half of this year, along with Carrot Pay, local commerce will be strengthened in earnest.

First of all, it plans to focus on revitalizing local businesses such as agricultural and fishery products and fresh food through O2O linkage that connects local commercial areas and residents. It plans to expand the O2O area with specialized companies such as cleaning, companion animals, education, and convenience stores, and to upgrade local services such as real estate, used cars, and jobs.

Reporter Lee Mi-kyung, Hankyung.com capital@hankyung.com

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