Reporter Jo Seong-ho of this paper is in a contest of “Frying Chicken” at a store in Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, where robots fry chicken. While the robot arm fixed on the wall is working to shake off the oil, reporter Jo is shaking the basket desperately to prevent the chickens from sticking together. [한주형 기자]The uncomfortable thought that it would be comfortable if the oil was hot but a robot would do it for you, quickly disappeared. It took less than a minute to admit defeat in a confrontation with a robot at a chicken restaurant where robots instead of people fry chicken.
The place where the reporter confronted the robot and fried chicken was’Rombut Chicken Gangnam 2’located in Gaepo-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. It was the first in Korea to have a robot that does everything from kneading to frying.
When it comes to fried chicken, the first difficulty that comes to mind is the hot heat of oil. However, the first challenge for a novice chef was dough. Weighing water and dough powder according to the specified ratio to make dough, and each time the dough was applied to the chicken, the gloves had to be removed and pinched repeatedly. By the time I realized why the pointed chicken bones broke through a piece of gloves and told me to put on two pieces of gloves from the beginning, time had already passed without help.
While the reporter wandered holding the dough, the kneader right next to the robot was leisurely moving a 70cm long conveyor belt. This kneader was a machine that made the dough along the conveyor belt by filling only the powder and water in advance and adding only the chicken. There was a frying basket at the end of the conveyor belt, so the chicken just before frying was dropped into the basket, and the robot arm immediately picked up the frying basket and took it with oil.
In the full-fledged chicken frying process, the robot’s time had to be completely dependent. In the nine minutes and 30 seconds of frying chicken in 170 degrees Celsius, the robot arm carried out the pre-prepared task at the exact time. It was the actions of shaking the basket to prevent the chickens from sticking after exactly 30 seconds after putting the chicken in the oil. After repeating the operation of shaking the basket several times following the robot, the chicken that felt light when eating was combined with the weight of the basket and turned into a dumbbell of 2 kg. CEO Kang Ji-young, the founder of the brand, said, “Most of the hungry times are similar, so orders are concentrated at a specific time and you have to fry several chickens.” “We can do everything efficiently.” In about 10 minutes of confrontation with robots, I felt that in the future, human jobs for kneading and frying chicken at chicken houses would soon disappear.
The Maeil Economic Daily interviewed 50 future business associates related to information technology (IT), including futurists and artificial intelligence (AI), to answer the changes in the job market after Corona 19. Officials have shown that face-to-face service industry is avoided now, but they predicted that many jobs will be replaced by AI or robots in the future. It is also predicted that demand for human resources will increase in areas that are difficult to be replaced by AI. The classification of occupations in the survey was conducted by referring to the career net, a job information site operated by the Ministry of Education.
The first question (including duplicates) that would disappear was answered by sales and sales (42%).
After that, travel/lodging/entertainment service workers (34%), finance/insurance workers (32%), manufacturing and production workers (26%). “As non-face-to-face sales and consumption increase, the demand for jobs in sales and sales, financial and insurance industries will inevitably decrease.” It will be.”
When asked about the jobs that were expected to increase employment, more than half chose health and medical jobs. In the health and medical profession, 60% of respondents predicted that employment will increase, followed by engineering research (42%), natural and life science research (38%), and caring service (26%). There were overwhelming opinions that the proportion of contract workers and temporary workers will increase in the future Korea job landscape. 90% of the respondents said that the number of freelancers, contract workers, and temporary workers will increase. Only 10% said that the level before the outbreak of Corona 19 would return.
As a policy to respond to the impact of employment and wages caused by Corona 19, in the end, the industrial restructuring was the most important. Fifty-eight percent of respondents answered that “restructuring the industrial structure such as digital and green new deals” is the most appropriate policy for job change.
Planning Commissioner Lee Myung-ho and Shi-jae Yeo emphasized, “Rather than directly supporting the victims or the affected industries, we should cultivate long-term competitiveness through industrial restructuring and create jobs as a result.” Income preservation centered on the low-income class also received 12% support.
There were many negative responses to the government’s response to job change. To the question “Do you think the government is proactively responding to job changes in the post-corona era”, 42% and 16% answered “No” and “Very not”, respectively, with more than half of the negative responses. One news agency executive who participated in the survey pointed out that “the direction such as the digital new deal is desirable, but there is no specific job plan.”
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