Ahn Cheol-soo: "Last Year's Annual Employment Increase... The Result of Pouring Public Funds into a Bottomless Pit"

Ahn Cheol-soo, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Founding of the People's Party (provisional name) / Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Seulgi Kim] Ahn Cheol-soo, the preparatory committee chairman for the founding of the People’s Party (tentative name), urged, "The government should create good jobs to provide an opportunity for reevaluation."

On the afternoon of the 12th, Chairman Ahn wrote on his Twitter, "The number of employed people increased by 301,000 last year. However, there are two problems," he said.

Chairman Ahn stated, "1) There is a severe generational gap. Employment among those aged 60 and over increased by 378,000, but the 30-40 age group decreased by 215,000.

2) The number of people employed for 17 hours or less per week increased by 301,000. This is a rapid increase in short-term public part-time jobs created with tax money," he said.

He added, "Good jobs are created as a result of regulatory reform, labor reform, and industrial structure reform," and said, "Sustainable jobs are created by the market and the private sector. Short-term high-paying jobs forcibly created with tax money disappear once the funding stops."

He continued, "The government should replace the broken 'job dashboard' with a 'regulatory reform dashboard.' I hope the national tax money is not poured into a leaky bucket but used as a primer for creating good jobs," he added.

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