The number of employed 553,000 in November ↑, the rate of increase narrowed… Accommodation and food service reduction conversion (total)

Face-to-face service industry hit by surge in COVID-19 cases, fear of Omicron

Although it is increasing for the ninth month in a row, daily workers and bosses with employees are still ‘cold’

(Sejong = Yonhap News) Reporter Cha Ji-yeon, Lee Bo-bae, and Kwak Min-seo = The number of employed people increased by more than 500,000 in November, continuing the increase for the ninth month.

However, the increase in the number of employed persons decreased compared to the previous month. The number of people employed in the accommodation and restaurant industry has decreased again due to the rapid increase in the number of new coronavirus infections (COVID-19) and the fear of omicron mutations.

According to ‘November Employment Trends’ released by the National Statistical Office on the 15th, the number of employed people last month was 27.795,000, an increase of 553,000 from a year ago.

The number of employed persons has increased for the ninth consecutive month since March.

The increase increased from 314,000 in March to 652,000 in April, followed by May (619,000), June (582,000), July (542,000), and August (51). 18,000), it slowed down.

Then, in September (671,000 people) and October (652,000 people), it rose again to 600,000, but last month it was 500,000.

This seems to be partly due to the base effect of the decrease in the number of employed people in November last year (-273,000) was comparatively better than in other months.

Due to the re-spread of COVID-19, the accommodation and restaurant businesses, daily workers, and ‘the boss with employees’ were also affected.

By industry, employment increased in the health and social welfare service industries (279,000 people), transport and warehousing (148,000 people), and information and communication industries (106,000 people), but wholesale and retail businesses (-123,000 people), lodging and restaurant business (-86,000 people), public administration, national defense, and social security administration (-81,000 people).

In particular, the number of employed in the accommodation and restaurant industry, which are the major sectors affected by COVID-19, increased in September (39,000 people) and October (22,000 people), but in November, it returned for the first time in three months after August (-38,000 people). returned to decline.

Jeong Dong-myeong, director of social statistics at Statistics Korea, explained, “As the number of daily confirmed cases surged due to the implementation of a gradual recovery of daily life and easing of quarantine rules, the decrease in the number of employed people, mainly in restaurants and pubs, was significant.”

The number of daily workers (-175,000) and the self-employed with employees (-4,000) also decreased.

The number of daily workers has been on the decline for the seventh month since May. The decrease in November was the largest since January (-232,000 people).

The number of self-employed people with employees has been on the decline for 36 consecutive months since December 2018.

However, the number of regular workers (611,000 people), temporary workers (106,000 people) and self-employed without an employee (42,000 people) increased.

By age group, the number of employed increased among those in their 60s (331,000 people), those in their 20s (156,000 people), and those in their 50s (149,000 people), but those in their 30s (-69,000 people) and those in their 40s (- 27,000) decreased.

The number of employed people in their 30s has been decreasing for 21 consecutive months since March last year due to the impact of the population decline. The number of employed people in their 40s increased for five consecutive months from June to October this year, but then turned to a decline again in November.

Those employed over 36 hours increased by 497,000, and those employed less than 36 hours increased by 178,000. The average working hours per week decreased by 0.1 hours to 39.3 hours.

The employment rate for those aged 15 and over stood at 61.5 percent, up 0.8 percentage point from the same month last year.

The number of unemployed was 734,000, down 233,000 from a year earlier.

The unemployment rate fell 0.8 percentage points to 2.6%. It is the lowest level in eight years since 2013 (2.6%) in the same month.

Employment assistance indicator 3 (expanded unemployment rate) fell 2.0 percentage points to 11.0%.

The economically inactive population decreased by 23,000 to 16,653,000, the ninth consecutive month of decline from March.

The number of job seekers increased by 14,000, while the number of those who gave up looking for a job decreased by 106,000. The ‘rested’ population decreased by 38,000.

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