People who make a living by selling game items and goods
Ricemuk.com data last year
As of October, the number of monthly visitors exceeded 300,000
>Increasing number of people earning income by selling game items
People who sell game items full-time are in the gray area between being employed and resting.
>There is labor but no production.
Over 24 million people subject to income tax return > Outside the system due to irregular income
Ministry of Employment and Labor official
We discussed with the National Statistical Office, but there are no separate statistics on these people / If they are self-employed, they are classified as employed, if they are unemployed, they are classified as unemployed.
Data from the National Statistical Office as of November last year
Job seekers 511,000 / Unemployed 359,000 / Rested Young people in their 20s 405,000 in their 30s 314,000
Young people’s time, which the Korean labor market cannot absorb, is repeatedly wasted in the game.
Lee Dong-soo, CEO of Youth Politics Crew
In Japan, you can work part-time, but it’s negative in terms of social skills and career because you’re just playing games.
In order to integrate them into the labor market, we need to be able to convince them that they can grow once they start working.