*Broad-sense platform workers refer to individuals who have been assigned a job through a smartphone application or online website and have earned income within the last three months. Also included are people who found a job through job search websites and were eventually hired by an employer.
**Narrow-sense platform workers refer to individuals whose work is open to many people, whose wages are paid via the platform, and who work on platforms where customer satisfaction influences their work assignments, such as delivery drivers of food apps.
Platform workers refer to people who provide services through online platforms.
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Number of gig economy workers South Korea 2021-2022, by type
In 2022, there were about *** million platform workers in South Korea, accounting for about ** percent of the country's total employment. The number of narrow-sense platform workers, such as delivery drivers of food apps, stood at about *** thousand. The gig economy, characterized by the prevalence of part-time and freelance jobs instead of traditional full-time positions, has experienced rapid growth in South Korea in recent years.
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