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SEOUL — At the Coex Convention Center in southern Seoul, a site best known for sleek business exhibitions, Kang Dal-soo, 76, joined the rush to check out the “silver job fair” offering 2,000 private-sector and 4,700 public -sector jobs for retirees.
“It seems I need to learn text-messaging in order to deliver flowers,” Mr. Kang said anxiously after an interview at a courier company’s booth. He wanted to work — even though flower delivery was not his ideal career — but he was worried about having to master a new technology at his age and wondered if he would be able to keep the job even if he got it.
Silver job fairs, established to find jobs for people aged 60 and over, have mushroomed across South Korea in the past year as part of a government effort to assist a rapidly growing population of older Koreans adrift in a changing society.
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