South Korea is experiencing the sharpest decline in workforce participation among young men in the OECD, as structural shifts — including rising female employment and rapid adoption of artificial intelligence — reshape the labor market. According to a Bank of Korea report released Tuesday, the labor force participation rate for men aged 25 to 34 fell to 82.3 percent in 2025, down 7.6 percentage points from 2000 — the steepest decline among all age groups in Korea and far exceeding the average am