Gwangju Seo-gu Promotes 'Region-Specific Industry Customized' Job Creation

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Seo-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Seo Daeseok) announced on the 18th that it recently held the agreement ceremony for the ‘2020 Regional Industry Customized Job Creation Support Project’ and has begun full-scale implementation.

Seo-gu previously secured 349 million KRW in national funds by having four projects selected in the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s public contest last month, and decided to invest a total of 379 million KRW to promote customized job projects suitable for regional characteristics.

The four selected projects are ▲ Training of professional elderly care personnel for a super-aged society ▲ Training of childcare experts to support employment for middle-aged women ▲ Training of AI coding experts ▲ Youth merchant development project linked to Yangdong Market to revitalize commercial districts.

The agreement ceremony was attended by the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Chosun Nursing University, the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Songwon University, and the Malbau Market Cultural Center.

The ‘Training of professional elderly care personnel for a super-aged society’ project, selected again this year, is a program to retrain career-interrupted nurses and care workers to become professional elderly care personnel. It is expected to contribute to the role of the local government as a leading organization in the community integrated care project in the future.

Additionally, the ‘Training of childcare experts’ project aimed at creating social jobs for middle-aged women is expected to greatly contribute to reducing the burden of childbirth and childcare for dual-income households and to the reemployment of career-interrupted middle-aged women.

Seo-gu also plans to invigorate Yangdong Market, the largest traditional market in Honam, by attracting and settling local youth through the ‘Youth Merchant Development Project linked to Yangdong Market,’ which provides employment and entrepreneurship education and business funds tailored to the characteristics of traditional markets.

A Seo-gu official said, “We hope for active participation from interested parties such as youth and career-interrupted women during the recruitment period for project participants,” and added, “We will continue to discover differentiated job projects unique to our region that meet the needs of local residents.”

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