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Trend in gender ratio by age group (2001~2004)
Year	2001	2002	2004
Total	101.4	101.4	101.3
Below 9 years old	112.7	112.0	110.9
10~19 years old	109.1	110.9	112.4
20~29 years old	105.9	106.6	107.1
30~39 years old	104.7	104.5	104.8
40~49 years old	103.4	102.8	102.4
50~59 years old	99.0	100.1	100.6
Over 60 years old	70.3	71.6	72.8

Gender equality hiring quota

Trend in gender ratio by age group (2001~2004)
Exam	1999			2001			2003
Exam	Passed	Passed: Women	Quota applied (women)	Passed	Passed: Women	Quota applied (women)	Passed	Passed: Women	Quota applied (women)
Total	2,109	288	40	3,845	1,288	59	2,830	1,138	39
Higher Civil Service Examination	182	31	2	233	59	3	209	70	2
Foreign affairs examination	20	5	-	30	11	-	28	10	2
Higher Engineering civil servant exam	40	1	N/A	41	5	-	61	7	1
Local government exam	27	4	-	27	1	-	18	1	-
Level 7 public position	492	30	18	599	96	22	633	140	19
Level 9 Public position	1,348	216	30	2,195	1,114	34	1,883	908	17

2003 Government position entrance exam and implementation of gender equality hiring quota


Category	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Higher than level 5	30%
Higher than levels 6王7
Higher than levels 8王9	≦ However, finance and economy position for Higher Civil Service Examination shall follow a separate schedule: 25% in 2003, 28%in 2004, 30% after 2005.

Gender equality hiring quota

Gender equality hiring quota
Category	Passing rate			Implementation of gender equality hiring quota
Category	Total	Women	Women ratio	Total	Men	Women
Total	9,372	4,392	46.8%	111	51	60
Federal positions	2,830	1,136	40.1%	39	9	30
Local positions	6,542	3,256	49.8%	72	42	30

[Unit : %]


Education	Economic participation rate		Unemployment rate
Education	Women	Men	Women	Men
Total	48.9	74.6	3.1	3.6
Below elementary school	40.0	58.8	1.0	2.0
Below junior high school	40.8	52.4	2.3	3.2
High school graduate	51.4	77.3	3.8	4.3
College or above	61.6	89.7	4.0	3.3

Source: Korea National Statistical Office, Summary of economically active population (2003)


Age	Economic Participation rate		Unemployment rate
Age	Women	Men	Women	Men
Total	48.9	74.6	3.1	3.6
15~19 years old	11.3	8.3	10.9	13.3
20~24 years old	61.5	50.9	6.1	8.6
25~29 years old	60.5	82.7	6.1	8.6
30~34 years old	49.8	94.7	2.6	3.0
35~39 years old	58.2	95.2	2.6	3.0
40~44 years old	64.0	94.8	1.9	2.2
45~49 years old	61.5	92.8	1.9	2.2
50~54 years old	55.5	89.6	1.4	2.4
55~59 years old	49.0	80.3	1.4	2.4
60 years old +	27.8	48.6	0.5	1.2

Source: Korea National Statistical Office, Summary of economically active population (2003)

Trend in gender ratio by age group (2001~2004)
Women	4,362,972
Agriculture/forestry/fisheries	6,715
Mining	1,779
Manufa cturing	944,235
Electricity/gas/water	6,047
Construction	80,055
Wholesale/retail/restaurant/lodging	1,586,792
Transportation/communications	99,252
Finance/insurance/realty/rental services	675,074
Social/personal services	963,023

Source: Ministry of Labor, yearly☆Investigative report on industrial labor status★,
☆Industrial labor status★

[Men = 100.0]


Year	Wage		Work hour		Turnover rate
Year	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
1995	59.9	100.0	97.2	100.0	139.4	100.0
2000	64.8	100.0	97.5	100.0	139.4	100.0
2002	64.8	100.0	97.2	100.0	135.3	100.0
2003	64.2	100.0	97.0	100.0	138.1	100.0

Source: Ministry of Labor ☆Monthly labor statistics report ★ December issue of each year
Note: surveyed on companies with 10 or more employees, wages are based on salary balance.

[Unit : %]

Trend in gender ratio by age group (2001~2004)
Category	Total	Women	Men
Total	65.4 (129,414)	63.7 (62,332)	66.9 (67,082)
Humanities	63.4 (17,672)	61.9(12,118)	67.1(5,554)
Social Studies	62.5 (34,771)	60.7 (15,972)	64.1 (18,779)
Biological Science	63.9 (48,740)	60.8 (15,747)	65.5 (32,993)
Medical/Pharmaceutical	91.6 (9,064)	91.2 (5,311)	92.2 (3,753)
Art/Athletics	69.4 (11,906)	66.0 (7,850)	76.8 (4,056)
Teaching	65.0 (7,261)	64.4 (5,334)	66.6 (1,927)
Education (National college)	97.1 (4,729)	97.6 (3,438)	95.7 (1,291)

Ministry of Gender Equality