President Lee Discusses Youth Job Crisis and Constitutional Reform

Lee says job crunch has hit young generation hard

The younger generation of Koreans are bearing the brunt of a "jobless recovery" brought on by slower economic growth, President Lee Jae Myung said Friday at a meeting on youth policies. Unlike the older generation that enjoyed ample opportunities in a society ungergoing fast economic growth, the young generation now is taking heat from the slowdown in growth with the country's economy having advanced, Lee said. "It seems that the era of youth we lived in is very different from the youth of today

By The Korea Herald