As of 2015, 78.9% of financial industry employees work in highly vulnerable jobs that are very likely to be replaced by computers with the advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Within the financial industry, those most vulnerable to the Fourth Industrial Revolution in terms of sex and age are women and young people aged 15 to 29.
Young people in the new-recruitment labor market see their jobs impacted most quickly by events arising in the financial industry, such as technological innovations and global financial crises.
Compared to 2008, the number of four-year university graduates newly employed in the financial industry has decreased by 36.3%, and the number of newly employed junior college graduates decreased by 70.2% in 2014.
From 2008 to 2014, the number of new recruits decreased for most academic majors. However, the number increased by 6.6% for economics in the case of four-year universities, and by 104.2% for information and communication in the case of junior colleges.
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