State data shows that women and senior citizens led the growth of the country’s employment last year.
 
According to Statistics Korea, the number of workers increased by 337-thousand last year, 205-thousand of whom were women, while 132-thousand were men.
 
The overall ratio of male workers remains higher in the total number of workers, but the gap is decreasing from four-point-09 million in 2012 to four million last year.
 
Workers in their 20s increased by a mere 68-thousand last year, while those in their 30s and 40s decreased. However, workers in their 50s increased 149-thousand, while those over 60 increased 172-thousand in 2015.
 
The country’s overall employment rate marked 60-point-three percent last year, failing to reach the government’s target of 70 percent for the third year in a row.