nomad
夢を追って日本でアルバイトをする、ある韓国人女性についての記事を読んでいて気になった語を取り上げます。
South Korean ‘job nomads’ follow their dreams to Japan
‘Not my family, friends — not even me — nobody thought I would end up working in Japan,” says Yoon Hyejung, a South Korean graduate who made headlines in the domestic media for receiving an offer from a top Japanese company without having what South Koreans call “specs.”
Yoon did not fit the typical profile of a South Korean high flyer. She did not have a long list of language certificates, internships or a degree from a top university in Seoul — the “specifications” many domestic firms demand from new hires. Instead, she had a year’s experience of traveling around the world and two years of working holidays in Australia and Japan.
Korean media labeled Yoon a “job nomad,” judging her newsworthy for snagging a plum position abroad while defying the stereotype of what makes a graduate employable in her home country. “Yoon, who received a full-time job offer from Kirin, is a ‘non-Seoul university graduate’ who experienced difficulties in the domestic market,” the Chosun Ilbo marveled.
Facing an ultracompetitive job market in South Korea, more graduates are choosing the nomadic path and heading abroad to fulfill their dreams. The Human Resources Development Service of Korea says the number of South Koreans who went abroad via government-sponsored programs alone has tripled within the last three years, from 1,679 in 2014 to over 5,000 in 2017.
"nomad" /nóʊmæd/を取り上げます。確かスズキのクルマにこの名前の車種があったと思いますが、『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）で調べてみると、「遊牧の民、放浪者、流浪者」とありました。ここでは"job nomads"とあるので「仕事放浪者」つまり、「仕事を転々とするフリーター」 のことを指していると考えられます。
LDOCEでは、"a member of a tribe that travels from place to place instead of living in one place all the time, usually in order to find grass for their animals"と定義されています。(Akim)
