It's a good year, but we're short of workers.A grateful touch that came at the right time.

[Anchor]
Apple farming is a good harvest this year, but farmers are worried.

This is due to a shortage of rural workers repeated every harvest season.

Just in time, grateful customers came.

Reporter Hong Sung-wook covered it.

[Reporter]
The branches are bent like they're going to bend.

It is full of apples the size of an adult's fist.

However, I don't see a touch to be busy with harvesting.

Finding rural workers is picking stars in the sky. Red ripe apples are not being harvested. The farmer's insides are burning black because he can't save people.

Welcome guests are here.

80 volunteers to help harvest apples.


8,000㎡ Orchard gather in twos and threes and sweat.

Be careful not to get hurt.

They harvest apples like babies.

[Hong Seong-rye/Volunteer: If you put a pretty ripe apple on top, it falls off the branch like this]

Unaccustomed work may be difficult, but there is no time to rest because of the angry farmer's thoughts.

Saecham is replaced with a hand-picked apple.

[Choi Hee-ja / Volunteer: It's so good. It's very sweet. There's a lot of honey. I think the farming went well this year.]

a yearly shortage of workers during harvest season

It is not easy to find workers even with a daily wage of more than 100,000 won.

All the foreign seasonal workers took turns and suffered.

Farmers who missed the harvest season and could not sell the apples they had grown properly finally relieved their worries.

[Lee Kyu-dae/Apple Farmhouse: We harvest apples at the same time, so we don't have enough workers. So I'm very grateful and very grateful that volunteers like this come and help me.]

The warm hands of the volunteers who came to the rural village.

For the farmer, it was a welcome rain in a long drought.

I'm YTN's Hong Sung Wook.