Korea McDonald's Wins 2020 National Industry Award in 'Employment-Friendly' Category

Korea McDonald's won the 2020 National Industry Award in the Employment-Friendly category. Yang Hyung-geun, Director of Korea McDonald's (right), and Park Ki-chan, President of the Industrial Policy Research Institute (left), are seen taking a commemorative photo at the award ceremony. Photo by Park Ki-chan

[Asia Economy Reporter Choi Saeng-hye] McDonald's announced on the 29th that it received an award in the employment-friendly category of the ‘2020 National Industry Awards,’ hosted by the Korea Institute for Industrial Policy Studies and jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, and the Seoul National University of Science and Technology.

The 2020 National Industry Awards are given to outstanding companies or institutions that have contributed to national industrial development, selected and awarded by an operating committee composed of experts from academia and industry, who comprehensively evaluate corporate operational performance and strategy, efforts for innovation, and social value.

McDonald's Korea was highly evaluated for contributing to both quantitative and qualitative employment creation domestically, faithfully implementing its regular employee hiring plan announced earlier this year despite the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). McDonald's Korea currently creates about 15,000 jobs at its headquarters and over 400 restaurants nationwide, which is among the largest in the global food service industry. Since entering the Korean market in 1988 with about 100 employees, the total number of employees has increased approximately 150 times.

Furthermore, earlier this year, McDonald's Korea announced a large-scale plan to hire about 600 regular employees to further contribute to employment creation in our society and provide young people with a stable employment environment and opportunities to grow as global food service experts. The hiring fields and numbers include about 200 restaurant management managers and about 400 shift managers, marking the largest scale since McDonald's entered Korea. Despite many companies reducing or canceling their employment plans due to the COVID-19 situation, McDonald's is faithfully implementing quarterly regular employee hiring as announced at the beginning of the year.

Restaurant managers selected through each hiring process will have opportunities to grow into store managers overseeing restaurants or middle managers managing multiple restaurants in the region, or to transfer to various departments at headquarters such as marketing, human resources, and finance to develop their careers. McDonald's actively provides various growth opportunities and benefits so that employees can grow into global food service experts.

A McDonald's representative said, “As a responsible global company, McDonald's will continue to strive to contribute to the development of food service experts and the spread of an employment-friendly culture.”

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