Malicious Commercialism Made Job Hunter Crying

The wicked commercialism uses the desperate searches of job hunters.

According to the survey of the Customer Protection Board (http://www.cpb.or.kr), the reported victims of fraud related with the certificates and reference books by Dec. 20th 2001 were 4053 people, up 7.9 percent from the same period of 2000.

The job hunters were alluded by the promise that the employment is 100 percent guaranteed after acquiring the certificate and brought pricey textbooks, which are not reliable.

Some of the swindlers even lied the job hunters that they could find a job with military duty exemption.

In addition, some people, who pretended as a job broker, demanded for high membership fees to the job hunters listed in a classified ad for job in the Websites.

Baek Seung-Sil, the team director of Life Culture, said, "If someone requested for an advanced payment for the class fees and textbook price saying job guarantee, it would probably be a wicked fraud."

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Heon-Jin Lee mungchii@donga.com