Half of working population employed by small, medium firms
Aug 26, 2013
More than half of South Korea's economically active people are employed by small and medium enterprises, data showed Monday, due mainly to the growing presence of the services sector in the local economy.According to the data by the Statistics Korea, workers employed at small and medium firms came to 12.6 million in 2011, accounting for 50.3 percent of the country's 25 million economically active population.Economically active population refers to people over the age of 15 who are either working