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Staff Reporter
Even part-time jobs are tough to land these days, but job seekers may find most luck at the Gangnam station area in southern Seoul, one of the biggest hang-out districts dense with cafes, restaurants and retail shops.
Albamon, an employment site specializing in part-time and hourly jobs, said Friday that the bustling station on Seoul Subway Line 2 offers the biggest pool of jobs out of 645 metro stops nationwide.
The ``green line'' in general passed through the best hiring districts, as Albamon's report showed that among nearly 35,700 part-time positions open for recruiting, 21 percent of them (7,512 jobs) were based in the stations traveling through Line 2.
Subway Line 1 came next with 16 percent of the jobs based on its route, followed by Line 5 with 10.1 percent and Line 4 with 10 percent.
On the green line, Gangnam station topped the number-of-jobs list with 911 positions, followed by Samsung (462), Hongik University (431) and Sulleung (424).
Active recruitments in areas along Line 2 is owing to the fact that the metro route passes through some of the city's most populated districts, has many transfer terminals and is dense with office buildings, according to the report.
So what kind of work is up for grabs?
Some of the common vacancies include waiting at restaurants and coffee shops, passing out flyers on the streets and taking phone calls at small companies, while the off-beat jobs go anywhere from guiding at an aquarium, selling tickets at movie theaters and washing hair at a beauty salon.
Most of the positions pay an hourly rate of 4,000 won.
These temporary, often menial jobs used to be taken up largely by the 20-somethings who need extra cash, but they have recently become a resort for 30 and 40-somethings struggling to make ends meet.
Alba, an online recruitment site for part-time job seekers, said Friday that the number of applicants in their 40s and 50s who've registered last month for an hourly position went up 33 percent and 48 percent on-year, respectively.
It said that the elder crowd show the most interest in jobs at gas stations and convenient stores that relatively demand simple tasks. Their one month's pay usually comes to 700,000 to 800,000 won.
``An increasing number of stay-at-home moms and retired people are trying to enter the workforce, even to make a little,'' said Yoo Sang-yong of Alba.
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