Korea Railroad and Water Resources Corporation Also Recruit 'Local Talent'... Expanding Employment Opportunities in Chungnam Region

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[Asia Economy Reporter Moon Jiwon] Opportunities for university students in Daejeon and the Chungcheong region to be employed by public enterprises such as Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL) and the Korea Water Resources Corporation are expanding.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 27th that the 'Plan to Expand the Scope of Institutions Required to Hire Local Talents' was approved at the 23rd National Balanced Development Committee meeting held on the same day.

Currently, 109 public institutions relocated to 10 local innovation cities operate a mandatory local talent hiring system that recruits graduates from local universities. However, there have been concerns that Chungnam and Daejeon, which do not have innovation cities, may face relative discrimination.

Considering this, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has been revising laws and coordinating with other ministries to expand the institutions subject to mandatory local talent hiring.

The 21 public institutions newly required to hire local talents include 15 institutions that relocated from the metropolitan area to local regions in the past and 6 institutions currently located in local areas that have succeeded or transferred the work of institutions previously in the metropolitan area.

There are 20 public institutions in the Daejeon Chungcheong region, including KORAIL, Korea Railroad Corporation Facilities Corporation, Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, and Korea Intellectual Property Information Service. The remaining one is the Korea Technology Finance Corporation located in Busan.

Additionally, with the enforcement of the revised "Special Act on the Creation and Development of Innovation Cities" on the same day, which integrates the scope of local talent hiring for public institutions in Daejeon, Sejong, Chungnam, and Chungbuk regions, 20 Chungcheong region public institutions will be able to mandatorily hire from universities located in the Chungcheong region.

The policy will apply to public institutions that announce recruitment after the official gazette notification on the 1st of next month. The first institution to apply this will likely be the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation, which plans to announce recruitment on the 10th of next month.

Lee Daeseop, Director General of Innovation City Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "Through the expansion of institutions required to hire local talents, students in the Daejeon area, who have been in the blind spots of the system, will benefit, and it is expected to contribute to more local youths settling in provincial areas."

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