Trend Digital transformation driving ICT and STEM employment in Korea

Summary

The report expects the acceleration of digital transformation since the COVID-19 pandemic to keep generating growth and jobs in Korea's ICT sectors. Continued investment in ICT manufacturing such as electronics and semiconductors, and in ICT services such as information and communication and professional scientific and technical services, underpins this outlook. By occupation, the fastest employment growth is expected among STEM professions. These include ICT professionals and technicians, science professionals and engineering professionals and technicians. The trend is the demand-side counterpart of the report's call to expand digital talent training and invest boldly in advanced technologies.