TOKYO -- Japanese companies are working to attract IT talent from South Korea, seeing their skills in rapid software development and their proximity to Japan as a way to ease a projected shortage of up to 790,000 engineers in 2030.
Tokyo-based staffing startup Lapras has partnered with Wanted Lab, a major South Korean recruitment company, to start a business that introduces South Korean engineers to Japanese companies. Lapras has raised 400 million yen ($2.8 million) from Wanted's Japanese subsidiary and others.
