SOUTH KOREAN GRADUATES LOOK TO JAPAN TO BEAT JOB SHORTAGE AT HOME

When Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul’s Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean college’s brightest graduates struggled to land a job. So in 2019 she launched a service to connect South Korean jobseekers with Japanese employers.

News - South China Morning Post reports that when Japanese entrepreneur Moe Kasugai was a student at Seoul’s Yonsei University, she was struck by how some of the prestigious South Korean college’s brightest graduates struggled to land a job.

The report adds: So in 2019 she launched a service to connect South Korean jobseekers with Japanese employers.

“I was surprised that they couldn’t find a job because they were so smart,” the 35-year-old said in Seoul at a two-day job fair organised by KOREC, her start-up, last month.

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