South Korean youth role-play careers to tackle unemployment: Video
A South Korean theme park has allowed youth to role-play careers in a bid to tackle unemployment.
KidZania has given South Korean youth a chance to role-play different careers in the hope of helping them find their vocation in life.
The South Korean branch of the Mexican-owned global chain which is typically marketed at young children hopes to help tackle youth unemployment in the country with its wildly popular, adults-only events.
“Our park is thirteen years old. A seven-year-old child at the time of opening has become a twenty-year-old child. Then let’s create an event for them. Let’s say the event is not for kids. That's how it started,” the president of Kidzania South Korea, Kang Jae-hyung, tells AFP.
As of June 2024, South Korea's unemployment rate was 2.8%. There were 857,000 unemployed people in total, which is 50,000 more than there were a year before.
However, there were 28.907 million people in employment, an increase of 96,000 or 0.3% from the previous year.
