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Are Veterinary Costs Arbitrary? The Issue of Fair Pricing Left Behind After Price Disclosure

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Are Veterinary Costs Arbitrary? The Issue of Fair Pricing Left Behind After Price Disclosure

Even with fee posting and standardization systems, pet guardians still struggle to determine the appropriate total cost of treatment. By comparing official domestic surveys, statutory fee ranges in Germany, and estimate-and-invoice reforms in the UK, this article examines the gap in price explanation and choice.

강지혜 선임기자 · 10/07/2026

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Half of South Korean Students Already Study with AI… Five Essential Competencies Our Children Need

South Korean students maintained top-tier global rankings in mathematics, science, and digital problem-solving in PISA 2025, but their reading scores dropped by 14 points compared to 2022. 51% of 15-year-old South Korean students use AI chatbots for learning at least once a week, with AI being rapidly adopted for summarization, preliminary research, and drafting essays. Recent studies show that while generative AI can have positive effects on learning, providing direct answers can actually weaken independent problem-solving skills. Materials from the WEF and UNESCO emphasize competencies such as analytical thinking, human-centric judgment, ethics, collaboration, and creativity alongside AI technology itself. The core of education in the AI era is not about maximizing AI usage, but about cultivating the ability to read deeply, think independently, verify AI outputs, and use them only when necessary.

최수진 기자 · 09/14/2026

Half of South Korean Students Already Study with AI… Five Essential Competencies Our Children Need

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“We're Hiring, But Fewer Than 10 People”… The 2026 Second-Half Recruitment Market Trend Through Hiring Data

According to a JobKorea survey of 569 human resources managers, 78.7% of companies plan to hire in the second half of the year, but 78.9% of them plan to hire 10 or fewer people, with 74.3% allocating budgets of less than 3 million won, pointing to the spread of 'long-tail hiring'. Data compiled by Catch showed that regular full-time job postings plummeted by 64% over two years, lowering their share to 50%, while the proportions of contract workers (from 25% to 34%) and interns (from 7% to 11%) increased. A Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) survey found that postings exclusively for entry-level applicants stood at just 2.6%, while a Wantedlab survey showed that companies most frequently sought workers with 4 to 7 years of experience (49.7%), demonstrating a clear preference for personnel who can be immediately deployed to practical tasks. While sales maintained the largest scale based on JobKorea platform data, postings increased in human resources/HR (+12%), planning (+9%), and marketing (+7%), while AI, development, and data alone decreased (-4%), a decline JobKorea analyzed as the impact of shifting to ad-hoc, small-scale recruitment (JobKorea's own interpretation). Amid the July employment trends announced the same day showing the youth unemployment rate rising by 6.8%—the largest increase in 5 years and 6 months—various indicators commonly point to the likelihood that an increase in second-half job postings and 'narrow gates' will appear together.

이지영 기자 · 08/12/2026

“We're Hiring, But Fewer Than 10 People”… The 2026 Second-Half Recruitment Market Trend Through Hiring Data

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Companies That Post the Same Job Openings All Year Long: Job Seekers Already Know

According to a Korea Employers Federation (KEF) survey, enterprises planning new hires increased to 66.6% this year, but the job market continues to reorganize around rolling and job-centric recruitment. Job seekers avoid identical position postings that repeat all year round, perceiving them as red flags for 'constant turnover' or potential ghost jobs. Negative evaluations of management and organizational culture accumulated on review platforms like Jobplanet act as exclusion factors starting from the application stage. Postings with unclear salaries, job roles, and employment types lose trust faster amid the gap between college graduates' expected salary (40.23 million won) and actual posted salaries (37.08 million won). Companies with poor websites and search information fail job seekers' self-verification processes, ultimately proving that transparency in recruitment branding dictates the competitiveness of securing talent.

류현진 선임기자 · 07/18/2026

Companies That Post the Same Job Openings All Year Long: Job Seekers Already Know

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Are Job Postings Increasing or Decreasing? The Two Faces of the 2026 Hiring Market Told by Numbers

While job openings (1.464 million, +3.4%) and hires (1.368 million, +4.6%) increased in the first quarter of 2026, planned hires for the second and third quarters (460,000) fell below the shortage of workers (467,000) for the first time since statistics began. Entry-level regular job postings at major corporations plummeted 43% year-over-year between January and November 2025, and only 2.6% of private platform postings in the first half of the year were for entry-level applicants. Employed persons decreased for the first time in 17 months (-40,000) in May, with youth employment plunging by 255,000, concentrating the shock on young people. Although the proportion of companies planning new hires rebounded to 66.6% in a Korea Enterprises Federation survey, the "format" of hiring shifted completely to rolling recruitment (54.8%) and job-experience-centric evaluation (67.6%). Global data from Gartner and Indeed also point to conservative hiring driven by AI transformation, making the second half of the year a critical turning point that will distinguish temporary adjustment from structural contraction.

박소유 책임기자 · 07/10/2026

Are Job Postings Increasing or Decreasing? The Two Faces of the 2026 Hiring Market Told by Numbers

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Claude Fable 5 Returns in 19 Days: Why the First Commercial AI Switched Off by the U.S. Government Came Back on July 1 with New Safeguards

Anthropic's top-tier model, Claude Fable 5, returned globally on July 1, 19 days after its service was suspended. Launched on June 9, the service was completely halted three days later when the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed export controls following a 'jailbreak' report by Amazon researchers. Anthropic contested the basis of the action, arguing that other models yield the same results, and engaged in negotiations with the government for about two weeks. As a condition for the return, a new classifier capable of blocking the technique by over 99% was introduced, with Opus 4.8 responding in its place when blocked. Marking the first export control case applied to commercial AI, the incident leaves behind tasks such as refining AI regulatory procedures and the need for corporate model diversification.

강지혜 선임기자 · 07/02/2026

Claude Fable 5 Returns in 19 Days: Why the First Commercial AI Switched Off by the U.S. Government Came Back on July 1 with New Safeguards