Job postings with Lunar New Year keywords up 383% on Albamon
70% plan to work part-time during the holiday period
During this year's Lunar New Year holiday period, both job postings and job-seeking demand for part-time work increased significantly. This is because many self-employed business owners are keeping their doors open over the holidays to earn even a little more money. As many as 70% of part-timers said they would rather work than visit their hometowns for the holiday.
According to part-time job platform Albamon on the 13th, based on the week immediately before the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of part-time job postings containing the keywords "Lunar New Year" or "holiday" increased by 383% this year compared to a year earlier. The company explained that short-term and holiday-type part-time hiring targeting the holiday season boom has increased sharply. Since January 20, Albamon has also been operating a "Lunar New Year Part-Time Job Hiring Section," focusing on job postings that are popular during the holiday season. The number of postings currently available for application there reaches about 2,500. There is also a broader trend of rising demand for supplementary staff ahead of the holiday period. Such demand usually starts to appear about one month before the holiday. An analysis by Albamon of all part-time job postings during the first and second weeks of January this year, which fall into this category, showed an increase of about 17% compared to a year earlier.
On Danggeun Market's own job platform "Danggeun Alba," the number of part-time job postings in the past two weeks increased by 25% compared to the previous two weeks. These Lunar New Year part-time jobs have been steadily increasing ahead of the holiday in areas such as department stores and large supermarkets, parcel and food delivery, and warehousing and packaging. During the holiday period itself, hiring demand is particularly strong in store management. On Danggeun Alba, postings for kitchen assistants and store management part-time jobs increased by 70% and 87%, respectively. This is evidence that many shops continue to operate during the holiday. A survey by delivery application Baedal Minjok on whether businesses would close during this holiday found that responses saying they would operate as usual throughout the entire period and those saying they would close only on Lunar New Year’s Day together accounted for nearly 70% of the total. In a recent survey by Albacheon-guk, 79.5% of respondents said they would keep their stores open during the Lunar New Year holiday.
Demand from job seekers for Lunar New Year part-time work is also strong. On Danggeun Alba, the number of applicants has increased by 10% in recent weeks. In a survey by Albacheon-guk of 1,331 part-time workers, 66.9% said they plan to work part-time during this Lunar New Year holiday. Among them, 53.3% said they plan to continue their existing part-time jobs during the holiday period, while 32.8% said they plan to take on an additional short-term Lunar New Year holiday part-time job on top of their current work.
The simultaneous increase in both job postings and job-seeking for Lunar New Year part-time work is also linked to the growing role of short-term part-time jobs in the labor market. Short-term part-time work refers to one-off jobs or positions lasting less than one month, or part-time jobs with no more than 15 working hours per week. According to the Statistics Korea National Statistics Portal, as of last month, the number of employed people working an average of 1 to 14 hours per week was 1.68 million. This represents a 2.3% increase from a year earlier. An industry official said, "Recently, more self-employed business owners prefer short-term part-time jobs that are less burdensome, due to rising labor costs and a worsening labor shortage."
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