Korea Inc's foreign labour crunch puts older workers back in factories - CNA

SEOUL: When Hwang Kwang-jo's factory in Seoul faced a staffing crunch earlier this year after the departure of Nepalese workers and younger locals, he hired a 61-year-old to pick up some of the work. While the job, which involves handling heavy alloy bars, is…

In South Korea, the world's fastest ageing society, 33.1 per cent of people aged between 70 to 74 are still working, topping the OECD's scale measuring the employment for the age group and far higher… [+1969 chars]

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