*General industry in this statistic indicates the 13 main industries in South Korea: finance, manufacturing, distribution, services, education, public, telecommunications/media, healthcare, construction, logistics, agriculture and livestock mining, accommodation/restaurants, utilities.
Figures have been rounded.
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Data related employment in South Korea 2015-2023, by industry
In 2023, around * thousand employees were working for data in the data industry, which was increased from about thousand employees in the previous year. On the other hand, there were around ** thousand of data-related employees in the general industry that year.
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