Among about 20 million labour force of Korea, 52% are on service, 27% on mining and manufacturing and 21% on agriculture, fishery and forestry.
This figure used to be opposite 30 to 40 years ago. Rice farming was a traditional living source in Korea.
However industrialization has changed Korean lifestyle.
47% of its GDP is from service sector, 45% from industry and 8% from agriculture etc.
This also shows that Korea is a big factory of the world ranging from semiconductor to shipbuilding.

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