{"id":1022422,"date":"2026-07-21T07:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022422"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:45:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:15:25","slug":"ai-driven-chip-boom-fuels-47-surge-in-entry-level-semiconductor-hiring-in-south-korea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/ai-driven-chip-boom-fuels-47-surge-in-entry-level-semiconductor-hiring-in-south-korea-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-driven chip boom fuels 47% surge in entry-level semiconductor hiring in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: JobKorea said Monday that entry-level hiring in South Korea&#8217;s semiconductor industry surged in the first half of the year, reflecting robust demand for talent as the AI-driven chip boom continues, The Korea Herald reported. <\/p>\n<p>According to the recruitment platform&#8217;s analysis, job postings for entry-level semiconductor positions jumped 47% from a year earlier. Entry-level roles accounted for 12.2% of all semiconductor job postings, up 2.4%age points from a year earlier and the highest share in five years, signaling a shift from an industry previously focused on experienced hires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul: JobKorea said Monday that entry-level hiring in South Korea&#8217;s semiconductor industry surged in the first half of the year, reflecting robust demand for talent as the AI-driven chip boom continues, The Korea Herald reported. According to the recruitment platform&#8217;s analysis, job postings for entry-level semiconductor positions jumped 47% from a year earlier. Entry-level roles accounted for 12.2% of all semiconductor job postings, up 2.4%age points from a year earlier and the highest share in five years, signaling a shift from an industry previously focused on experienced hires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022444,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022422\/revisions\/1022444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}