{"id":67924,"date":"2026-08-03T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/67924\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:08:10","slug":"south-korean-graduates-look-to-japan-to-beat-job-shortage-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/67924\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean graduates look to Japan to beat job shortage at home"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Japanese<\/a> entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul\u2019s Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean<\/a> college\u2019s brightest graduates struggled to land a job.<\/p>\n

So in 2019 she launched a service to connect South Korean jobseekers with Japanese employers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised that they couldn\u2019t find a job because they were so smart,\u201d the 35-year-old said in Seoul at a two-day job fair organised by KOREC, her start-up, last month. \u201cMany could speak Japanese, \u200cso I thought it might be better for them to go to Japan. I wanted to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

South Korean youth face a chronic shortage of desirable entry-level jobs, as big name employers such as Samsung prefer to hire experienced workers and many older people remain in their jobs. In ageing Japan, meanwhile, companies are struggling to fill positions in large graduate schemes offering structured training to those taking the first step in their careers.<\/p>\n

\"SouthSouth Korean jobseekers take notes during a presentation at a fair connecting applicants with Japanese employers in Seoul on July 12. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n

In a sign of the growing demand \u2013 and despite average salaries now being slightly higher in South Korea than in Japan \u2013 South Korea\u2019s Wanted Lab and Japan\u2019s LAPRAS, both of which specialise in tech talent placement, this year launched similar services to KOREC, joining early mover Mynavi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul\u2019s Yonsei University, she was struck by how some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44031,44025,44021,44028,25877,8,44030,44023,44022,44029,44027,659,657,44024,44026],"class_list":["post-67924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-azbil","tag-canon-imaging-systems","tag-dongguk-university","tag-energize","tag-hankuk-university-of-foreign-studies","tag-japan","tag-korea-labor-institute","tag-korec","tag-lapras","tag-moe-kasugai","tag-mynavi","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea","tag-wanted-lab","tag-yonsei-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}