According to a survey released by Saramin, a local online recruitment website, the average annual salary requirement of Korean jobseekers is 27.56 million won.

The survey of 1,062 Korean jobseekers showed that they preferred 27.56 million won ($24,254) on average as their annual salary requirement. The survey also revealed that 29.4 percent of the total respondents preferred working for major conglomerates while only 17 percent wanted small and medium-sized companies.

More than half of the respondents preferred jobs in or near the the capital area: 46.1 percent of respondents answered that they want to work in Seoul and 18.2 percent said they are looking for jobs in Incheon or Gyeonggi Province.

Info-communications and IT industry was the most preferred job category with 13.7 percent, followed by distribution and trade industry with 10.6 percent.

Source: Korea Herald