Though services account for 76% of employment, its contribution to overall economic growth is small, owing to low productivity. Indeed, value added per worker in the services sector remains just 40% of that in the manufacturing sector, and annual productivity growth was only 2% from 1980 to 2010 – significantly lower than the manufacturing sector’s rate of 8.2%.
让问题变得更为严重的是韩国制造业和服务业之间的显著失衡。虽然服务业占到就业人数的76％，但生产力低下限制了其对整体经济增长所做的贡献。事实上，服务业人员人均附加值仍然仅有制造业的40％，且1980年至2010年间的年均生产率增长仅为2% ——远远落后于制造业8.2%的年均增长率。