“Don’t ask” 1.2 million civil servants… More than the population of Yongin

◆ 1.2 million civil servants era ◆

In the aftermath of Corona 19, a job crisis is driving the entire society, including companies and small business owners, but only the civil servant society is boasting a `alone employment boom`. Since the inauguration of the Moon Jae-in administration, the number of public servants is expected to reach 1.2 million at the end of the term, as state and local offices (including firefighting and police) are increased by 30,000 every year.

The once increased number of public servants is not easily reduced even after the crisis is over, and it is pointed out as a major cause of deprivation of the people’s pockets by having to provide not only an annual salary but also a pension after retirement. I can’t. Criticism is pouring out that the bloated public service society is particularly absorbing talented people who will contribute more to companies and startups, thus lowering national competitiveness in the long term.

If we put together the HR Innovation Statistical Yearbook of the Ministry of Human Resources Development on the 20th and the government’s hiring plan for public officials, the number of public officials is expected to reach 1.2 million by 2022, when Moon Jae-in is in office. According to the Ministry of Personnel Innovation, as of the end of 2019, the number of public servants was 1.13,878. From 2018 to this year, the government is increasing the number of government and local public officials by about 30,000 each year. If this trend continues, it is certain that the number of public officials will reach 1.2 million by 2022, the end of the term of office.

As of December last year, Yongin has a population of about 1.07 million, and the number of public servants has already exceeded the population of Yongin since 2018 (108,5849). In the three years from 2018 to 2020, the number of public servants increased by about 91,000. It has already exceeded the number of public servants increased by the Lee Myung-bak administration (10,134) and the Park Geun-hye administration (39,918).

It is pointed out that the government, which is run by national taxes, should be cautious in that it will be a burden on the people for decades to stick to hiring government officials to achieve the presidential pledge.

As a result of the assumption that the National Assembly Budget Office will sequentially hire 174,000 people, which was President Moon’s pledge last year, as ninth-level public officials, it has been analyzed that it will cost 328 trillion won (excluding public service pension contributions) over the next 30 years.

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The civilian job was ruined… “Increase the number of public offices by hanging on a pledge”

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Don’t ask, the public service society’Alone Employment Boom’

Employment of non-regular workers and public jobs…
Public servants are hiring all age groups

More than twice the population of Japan
High proportion of public servants in OECD standards

Administration 硏 “Excluding welfare and safety
All administrative demand will decrease”

The current government’s public sector jobs increased unprecedentedly due to the expansion of hiring public servants, continuing the elderly job business, and becoming regular workers for non-regular workers. It can not be blamed for the increase in jobs, but amid the Corona 19 crisis, the productive jobs of companies are gradually shrinking due to anti-business policies of the politicians, and in contrast to the cooling off of entrepreneurship fever due to the increase of the minimum wage and the expansion of the 52-hour work week, it is raising concerns. In the era of full-scale population decline, administrative demand is declining, and many point out that increasing the number of public servants is a betrayal of interest. That means that only the burden that future generations have to bear has increased.

On the 20th, according to the statistics of public sector jobs in 2019 by the National Statistical Office on the 20th, the number of jobs by age increased by 34,000 people under the age of 29 and 23,000 people in their 30s, indicating that youth employment has increased. Employment increased by 14,000 people in their 40s, 43,000 people in their 50s, and 37,000 people in their 60s. Jobs in the public sector are due to the expansion of new recruitment of public officials, direct employment for external services such as cleaning and building management, and the expansion of job opportunities for the elderly. In particular, out of the total 151,000 jobs that have increased from the previous year, 80,000 or more jobs accounted for more than half. On the other hand, last year’s employment trend released by the National Statistical Office shows the private sector employment performance at the level of’employment disaster’. Jobs in all age groups excluding those in their 60s or older, such as 20s (-146,000), 30s (-165,000), 40s (-158,000), 50s (-88,000) It fell sharply. With the decline in decent jobs, the difficulty of young people’s employment intensifies, and jobs in their 30s and 40s, especially those in their 30s and 40s, which fall under the economic backbone, were also shocked.

Experts pointed out that the problem is that the government is focusing on achieving the presidential pledge without worrying about mitigating and absorbing the impact of jobs in the private sector in the public sector. Professor Kim Byeong-min of the Department of Public Administration at Kyung Hee University said, “In the worst employment crisis since the IMF last year, not only those in their 20s and 30s but also high school graduates had bottomed out,” he said. “There was no concern about what the public sector should do to improve youth employment.” .

Many point out that even by international standards, the size of Korean public servants is excessive. According to statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Japan, which has more than twice the population of Korea, had 3978,000 civil servants as of 2017, which is 3.15% of the total population. On the other hand, in Korea, general government jobs, excluding public enterprises, are used as OECD statistics, which is 2.22 million (as of 2019), accounting for 4.28% of the total population. Looking at the statistics on the ratio of the number of public servants to the total number of employed people provided by the OECD, Japan was 5.89% in 2017, while in Korea it was much higher at 8.1% (as of 2019).

It is pointed out as a problem that it is only focusing on recruitment expansion without considering the demands of state administration and social change in the mid- to long-term. In the’Government Function and Manpower Outlook Considering Mid-Term Administrative Demand’ announced last year by the Korea Institute of Public Administration, the government’s mid-term administrative demand and manpower demand forecast by function are presented. As a result, the demand for administrative manpower in the fields of general administration (-16.6%), economic industry (-9.5%), and education culture (8.1%) will significantly decrease, and the demand for social welfare (29.1%) and national safety (13.2%) will increase. It was expected.

The report said, “Considering that administrative demand is expected to decrease in three of the five areas, it is necessary to carefully review the public officials assigned to each function.” It is necessary to request collaboration rather than adding a new one.” Yang Jae-jin, a professor at Yonsei University’s Department of Public Administration, said, “It is judged that the government has the goal of creating public jobs, neglects manpower management that meets administrative needs, and increases the number of people according to the achievement of the pledge.” “It’s a negative in operational efficiency.”

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