Incheon City and Districts Create 190 Specialized Jobs through Win-Win Cooperation... Expanding 14 Projects

'Excellent Projects: "Daycare Cook Support" and "Training Visiting Childcare Coaching Activists"'

Yeonsu-gu One-Person Broadcasting Incubation Center
Photo by Incheon City

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] Incheon City, together with its districts and counties, has shown positive results in its win-win cooperation specialized job creation project.

The city has been promoting the win-win cooperation specialized job creation project with districts and counties to break away from the top-down approach centered on Incheon City and create customized jobs based on local conditions and characteristics reflecting on-site demand.

In the first year of the project last year, 9 projects were selected in 8 districts and counties, and with a budget of 1.84 billion KRW invested, 190 jobs were created. This exceeded the initial target of 176 jobs.

The city selected Michuhol-gu's "Childcare Center Cook Support Project" and Bupyeong-gu's "Visiting Childcare Coaching Activist Training Project" as excellent brand projects due to their good performance.

Michuhol-gu created jobs by supporting cooks even in childcare centers with fewer than 39 children, which do not have regulations for cook placement. This not only created cook employment but also reduced the burden on directors and childcare teachers who had to perform cooking duties, thereby improving the quality of childcare services.

Additionally, Bupyeong-gu trained 28 childcare coaching activists targeting women under 50 who had experienced career breaks. They visited 1,126 households with children aged 24 months, providing new mothers with postpartum care, breastfeeding, and baby bathing know-how.

The satisfaction survey showed a score of 96.7, indicating that the supported mothers expressed high satisfaction with the childcare coaching services.

This year, the city plans to increase the project budget to 2.3 billion KRW and expand the target projects to 14 projects across 8 districts and counties.

Projects to be promoted include revitalizing small libraries in Dong-gu, operating a one-person broadcasting incubation center in Yeonsu-gu, dispatching massage therapists who are visually impaired to senior centers in Namdong-gu, training visiting gender equality education instructors in Bupyeong-gu, operating a shuttle bus for Seoun General Industrial Complex in Gyeyang-gu, specialized projects tailored for women with career breaks in Seo-gu, and supporting the Job Connection Center in Ongjin-gun.

Kim Sangseop, head of Incheon City's Job Economy Headquarters, stated, "Overall, last year's project showed good results and positive local responses, so we will expand the project this year as well. We will focus on discovering creative and innovative customized jobs that consider on-site conditions in cooperation with districts and counties."

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