{
  "id": 15853981,
  "title": "Non-Regular Workers Make Up Record 38.5% of S. Korea’s Workforce",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/non-regular-workers-make-up-record-38-5-of-s-koreas-workforce",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T05:07:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KBS World Radio",
    "slug": "kbs-world-radio",
    "url": "https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=205013"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "[Economy] : Nearly four in ten wage workers in South Korea were employed on a non-regular basis, the highest proportion since related statistics were first compiled in 2003. According to the Ministry of Data and Statistics on Wednesday, eight-point-77 million of the country’s 22-point-53 million wage workers were ... [more...]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}