Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon: ”The real youth policy is a fair workplace...jobs for young people are disappearing” (South Korea)

Seoul Mayor Oh Sehun said on the 16th, "We need to create a new framework for the labor market by introducing a job-level and performance-based pay system that rewards individuals based on their abilities."
In a post on his blog that day, Mayor Oh mentioned the fact that Lee Jae-myung, the head of the Democratic Party of Korea, had called for an extension of the retirement age in a recent speech as the head of the negotiating group, and said, "True youth are the ones who are the foundation of the nation."
The policy is to create a "fair workplace." Mayor Wu said that according to the employment trends of the Statistics Korea in January, the employment rate of young people dropped to the largest in four years, and the wage increase rate of people in their 20s was also the lowest among all age groups.
The report said that the number of people who participated in the survey was the lowest in the past, and that this was evidence that young people are losing opportunities to find quality jobs in their lifetimes.
The anger of young people that the government will be overwhelmed by the burden of long-term care and welfare finances is entirely justified. Young people are demanding fair competition and appropriate compensation."
In addition, Mayor Wu said, "Korea has the largest wage gap in the world between new employees and long-term employees. We have a seniority-based pay system that determines wages based on age and years of service.
"The current system is neither fair nor just," he said, emphasizing the need to introduce a job ranking and performance-based pay system. "Only then can companies increase job opportunities for young people without burdening them, and young people can freely demonstrate their abilities," he said.
"The extension of the retirement age without fair workplace practices is likely to cause further hardship to young people who are already suffering, just as a certain member of the Democratic Party of Korea said," Mayor Wu said.
This was in response to the controversy surrounding Park Geun-hye, who resigned from the Democratic Party after making the controversial remark that "young people who are defending the turmoil at the Seoul Western District Court must be isolated."
The mayor of Wu City, who is the second in the city council, said, "The most important thing is the attitude of the Democratic Party of Korea, which is the majority party in the assembly, and the two major labor unions. We need to promote fairness between generations in the labor market."
I ask you to actively participate in correcting this."