Government Cancels Japanese Job Fair Despite Worsening Youth Unemployment in South Korea

This makes sense, with worsening youth unemployment in South Korea the ROK government has decided to cancel a job fair just because it features Japanese companies:

People fill out application forms for job interviews at a job fair in Seoul in this June photo. A job fair for Japanese companies, which was planned to be held in the second half of the year, has been canceled amid chilled relations between Korea and Japan following the latter’s trade restrictions. / Yonhap

A job fair for Japanese companies has been scrapped amid worsening ties between Seoul and Tokyo, according to the labor ministry, Monday.

The Seoul Career Vision, a job fair hosted by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and co-organized by the Korea Trade Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, was scheduled to be held on Sept. 24 in Seoul and Sept. 26 in Busan.

It is a fair for young people seeking jobs at foreign companies, and Japanese firms have taken up a large portion in recent years, with last year’s events only for Japanese firms. 

However, the ministry has decided to cancel the event, citing the strained diplomatic relations following Japan’s economic retaliation against the Korean Supreme Court’s rulings over compensation for surviving South Korean victims of wartime forced labor.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link, but I am still waiting for the ROK government to cancel a Chinese job fair because of the economic retaliation from China over the THAAD dispute.

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charliem
charliem
6 years ago

Feeding your family by working for a Japanese company would make you a collaborator, anyway.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
6 years ago

Silly Korea!

Place Koreans in Japanese companies…

…then sabotage from within!

Korea succeeds only by momentum. There is no elegance in anything.

setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago

CH, you are oversimplifying the issue. Dokdo is more important than Chejudo to the Moonies. You need to show that patiently waiting to enter a subway car, bus, or elevator (after those trying to leave have cleared the way) is the key to driving down the fairway to success.

Or something like that.

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Let that unemployment rate soar! Good job by you Commie Moon. Ruining the economy for Fatty and Emperor Xi.

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