A Forum to Explore Successful Strategies for the 'Busan-type Job' Initiative Opens!

‘2020 Busan-type Job Forum’ Held

Busan City Hall exterior view. (Photo by Busan City)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Yoseop] A forum to increase public consensus on the Busan-type jobs and seek successful strategies will be held.

Busan City and the Busan Institute of Industrial Science and Innovation announced that they will hold the ‘2020 Busan-type Jobs Forum’ at 2 p.m. on the 7th at the 12th floor International Conference Hall of Busan City Hall.

At this forum, Busan City will introduce the Busan-type job project of Corens Co., Ltd., which has been promoted since last year, and seek ways to form public consensus and development directions.

About 200 people will attend the forum, including representatives from the Presidential Committee on Jobs, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, Corens and its partner companies, local labor-management-government representatives, industry-academia-research experts, public officials, and citizens.

The event will be conducted in two parts: Part 1 with keynote presentations and Part 2 with panel discussions.

In Part 1, under the theme ‘Introduction to the Win-Win Job Project and Sharing the Current Status of Busan City’s Promotion,’ Park Wi-gyu, Team Leader of the Win-Win Job Support Center at the Jobs Committee (government’s direction for promoting win-win jobs), Lee Hang-gu, Senior Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (development strategy for local governments’ win-win jobs), Jin O-min, Vice President of Corens (investment and employment plans for electric vehicle core parts manufacturing cluster), and Kim Hyun-jae, Director of Investment and Trade Division of Busan City (progress and future plans of the Busan-type job project) will each give presentations.

In Part 2, under the theme ‘Directions and Challenges of the Busan-type Job Project,’ panelists including Jang Gyu-tae, Head of the Busan Headquarters of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions; Kim Deok-jung, Director of Employment Support at the Busan Employers Federation; Yoo Sang-woo, Representative of Corens labor side; Ahn Byung-joo, Representative of partner companies’ labor side; Kim Ho, Head of Policy Research Division at the Busan Institute of Industrial Science and Innovation; Jang Won-ja, Director of the Labor Rights Solidarity; and Kim Jong-han, Professor at Kyungsung University (moderator) will present diverse opinions.

Busan City plans to incorporate the various opinions presented at this forum into the Busan-type job policy. At the Busan labor-management-government plenary meeting to be held this month, the Busan-type job win-win agreement will be submitted, and a win-win agreement signing and Busan-type job proclamation ceremony will be held. Afterwards, in line with the government’s promotion schedule, an application for designation as a win-win regional job will be submitted to the government.

The city views the global major transformation of the automobile industry toward future vehicles as a new opportunity for the revitalization of the local industry. In December 2018, it attracted the production facility for the Renault Twizy ultra-small electric vehicle to Busan, and in July last year, it proposed domestic investment and the promotion of win-win jobs to Corens, which was planning to invest in overseas production and research facilities for electric vehicle core parts, signing a business investment memorandum of understanding (MOU).

Since August last year, a labor-management-government governance including participating companies, local labor and management, and civic groups, who are the actual stakeholders, has been formed, and active discussions and deliberations have been held to prepare the Busan-type job win-win agreement.

Kim Yoon-il, Director of the Job Economy Office of Busan City, said, “The Busan-type job is a model where primary and subcontracting companies unite to jointly develop and produce global electric vehicle core parts technology and grow together.” He added, “With technological innovation, the will for win-win cooperation between labor and management and between primary and subcontracting companies, and support from the local community, Busan can stand tall as a city leading the future vehicle industry.”

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