The Ministry of Employment and Labor and private hiring platforms will manage to eradicate false and exaggerated job advertisements. The measure comes in response to a surge in damages from employment scams targeting Koreans in Cambodia.
According to the ministry on the 22nd, a "roundtable on hiring platforms to create a safe hiring environment" was held that morning at the Seoul Regional Ministry of Employment and Labor in Jung District, Seoul, chaired by Vice Minister Kwon Chang-jun. Major hiring platforms including JobKorea, Saramin, Incruit, Braincommerce, and Wanted Lab, as well as the Korea Vocational Information Association, attended.
The association proposed establishing a "public-private integrated system for handling false job advertisements" as a way to prevent employment scams and damages caused by incorrect job information. It also saw a need for systematic education on job-search cautions targeting entry-level workers and for strengthening post-posting monitoring systems.
To prevent crimes against job seekers via job postings, the government plans to build and operate a regular inspection and joint monitoring system with private employment platforms based on an interagency cooperation framework.
Vice Minister Kwon said, "Job postings serve as the first link to the labor market for young people preparing for employment, but unverified job information can instantly become a conduit for crime," and added, "Protecting young people's jobs and lives is a task that the government and the private sector must shoulder together, and through public-private cooperation we will establish a proactive and precise job posting monitoring system to ensure youth safety."