The government has made job creation its top priority, but the jobs it's creating are not well paid.
Many of them are also low-skilled and temporary.
Data from Statistics Korea show this year only the public sector has had a net increase in these kinds of jobs... where workers earn less than 18-hundred U.S. dollars a month.
And the increase was the biggest since that figure was first compiled five years ago.
In the first half of the year, the total number of these low-income workers in the public sector was about 400-thousand,... up nearly fifty-thousand from a year earlier.
All other industries, though, saw a decline in low-paid jobs.
