Yoon Seok-yeol: "Moon Government Was a 'Fake Jobs' Administration... Destruction, Not Creation"

Promising Active Support for Job-Creating Companies

Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate (Photo by Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Reporter Kum Boryeong] Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, criticized the Moon Jae-in administration's job policies as a "fake job government."

On the 21st, Yoon said on Facebook, "The Moon Jae-in administration is a fake job government," adding, "Looking at the reality that has recently come to light, it is more accurate to say that the Moon Jae-in administration is a job-destroying government rather than a job-creating government."

Yoon pointed out, "According to the statistics recently announced by the government, the number of jobs increased over the past year as of October this year. At least on the surface, it appears so," but added, "The problem is that most of the jobs that are said to have increased are part-time jobs and public sector jobs."

He continued, "At first glance, the job situation seems to have improved significantly. However, the quality of jobs has deteriorated markedly," explaining, "The number of full-time employees (working 36 hours or more per week), which can be considered good jobs, decreased by 4.44 million to 16.526 million over the past year. This is a sharp drop of 21.2%."

Yoon also said, "The good jobs that people aspire to have have significantly decreased, while short-term and public sector jobs have increased sharply," and criticized, "This is the real report card of the Moon Jae-in administration, which claimed to be a job government. It is the bare face of the Moon Jae-in administration, which was full of 'job makeup' and self-praise."

He then addressed the Moon administration, saying, "I want to ask what exactly was done and how, that despite investing astronomical amounts of taxpayers' money, such a disastrous result came out," and added, "The reason for this outcome is that the Moon Jae-in administration was only eager to increase the numbers in promotional statistics for the public without implementing structural measures to practically improve the job problem."

Along with this, he also presented a pledge to actively support companies that create jobs. Yoon said, "Jobs are not created by the government but by companies," and added, "We will provide bold support for youth startup entrepreneurship. The next government will definitely make a breakthrough in improving the job situation."

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