Over 4,000 additional job cuts are on their way at Korea's big three shipbuilders.

This is according to industry sources cited by the Yonhap news agency.

They said yards remain under pressure due to a lack of new orders.

DSME slashed 2,000 positions last year and will slice the same amount in 2017, the report said. Two hundred staff will go in offices starting this month, sources said.

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