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"A Monthly Salary of 33 Million Won for Ages 60 and Older"... The Reason Behind This Unprecedented Job Posting

Lee Gang

Published : Aug 13, 2026 9:32 AM

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This is about a job posting offering a monthly salary of 33 million won exclusively for people aged 60 and older.

The age requirement is quite high.

And 33 million won refers to a monthly salary, not an annual one.

This unprecedented job posting is for a "senior doctor."

Sinan-gun in Jeollanam-do announced that it is publicly recruiting one "senior doctor" aged 60 or older.

The number of public health doctors working in Sinan-gun decreased from 21 last year to 15 this year.

As a result, doctors have not been assigned to 8 out of the 16 local health branches in the county, which is half of them.

Sinan-gun offered a high level of compensation to resolve the medical service gap.

Working 5 days a week comes with a pre-tax monthly salary of 33 million won.

Working 4 days a week provides a pre-tax monthly salary of 26.4 million won.

Applicants must be doctors who have either acquired a general practitioner license with 20 or more years of clinical experience, or obtained a specialist qualification and worked at a general hospital level or higher for 10 or more years, with a contract period of 1 year.