A survey finds most young South Korean workers wish to work abroad.

Korea Recruit, a Seoul-based job-searching firm, on Monday released the results of the survey it conducted recently on some four thousand-700 wage workers in their 20's and 30's.

According to the findings, 96.5 percent of the respondents expressed a wish to work abroad. The survey also found that young workers are making various efforts to secure a job in a foreign country, including foreign language study and acquiring practical business skills.

Some 45 percent of the respondents cited "the challenge of it" as the reason to work abroad, with 34 percent favoring the U.S. as the foreign country in which they wish to work.