Older workers overtake young employees at top companies

Older workers now make up a larger share of employees at South Korea’s biggest companies than those aged 30 or younger, as new hiring has fallen sharply over the past two years, a report showed Tuesday. A total of 92,680 employees were newly hired by 132 of the country’s top 500 companies by revenue in 2025, down 15.3 percent from 109,456 in 2023, according to Leaders Index, a local corporate tracker. The number of employees at the companies edged up from 1.259 million in 2023 to 1.262 million i