A special contribution by Representative Kim Jong-min of the National Assembly's Trade, Industry, Energy, SMEs and Startups Committee, titled '(Great Transformation New Deal) Part 7: The Work of the Nation, the Work of the Citizen,' includes—amid its lengthy discussion of national governance and political reform—a figure worth noting from a business perspective as well. It states that in the three years since ChatGPT's emergence, youth employment fell by more than 210,000, and 98.6% of that decline occurred in AI-exposed industries.
What the Numbers Indicate
This statistic is significant not because it addresses the aggregate question of 'how many jobs were lost,' but because it overwhelmingly pinpoints 'where they were lost.' The fact that 98.6% of the decline was concentrated in AI-exposed industries means the employment shock was not spread evenly across all sectors, but rather concentrated in areas where work structures were actually substitutable by AI. The original text describes this as
Source: (Great Transformation New Deal) Part 7: The Work of the Nation, the Work of the Citizen