{"id":320474,"date":"2025-10-21T06:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/320474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:15:16","slug":"south-korea-grapples-with-growing-number-of-idle-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/320474\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea grapples with growing number of idle young adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/work\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Work<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Government to combat record rise of NEETs with virtual employment experience<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20251020N Korean NEETs\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">South Korean Employment and Labor Minister Kim Young-hoon, center, participates in a conversation with young people about finding work.\u00a0(South Korean government)<\/p>\n<p>NAMI MATSUURA<\/p>\n<p>October 21, 2025 05:39 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SEOUL &#8212; The South Korean government is sounding the alarm about growing numbers\u00a0of young people dropping out of the labor market, and seeking ways to reverse the trend that one top official told Nikkei could cause the country&#8217;s &#8220;extinction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work Government to combat record rise of NEETs with virtual employment experience South Korean Employment and Labor Minister&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":320475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30227,64,79,160560,33898,160561,57897,13009,3948,67,132,68,34175],"class_list":{"0":"post-320474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-adults","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-grapples","12":"tag-growing","13":"tag-idle","14":"tag-korea","15":"tag-number","16":"tag-south","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115410693281775699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}