{"id":809577,"date":"2026-07-19T05:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T05:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:17:13","slug":"no-of-unemployed-college-graduates-hits-5-year-high-in-q2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/809577\/","title":{"rendered":"No. of unemployed college graduates hits 5-year high in Q2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1577263c-6348-400c-9a21-c5a4894208f1.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1233; width: 100%\" alt=\"Job seekers look at job postings at a job fair in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Job seekers look at job postings at a job fair in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The number of unemployed college graduates in Korea hit a five-year high in the second quarter amid a tightening job market for young adults, government data showed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The number of jobless people with a bachelor&#8217;s degree and above reached 481,000 in the April-June period, up 39,000 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The figure marked the highest second-quarter level since 2021, when 521,000 graduates were out of work during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Those in their 20s and 30s accounted for 64.2 percent of all unemployed people with a college degree or higher, with a combined figure of 309,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">An official at the data ministry said the rise in the unemployment rate suggested that the labor market had been affected by the Middle East crisis in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The total number of unemployed people reached 855,000 in the April-June period, up 11,000 from a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Job seekers look at job postings at a job fair in Seoul, Wednesday. Yonhap The number of unemployed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-809577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}