Gyeongbuk Province Leads Nationwide in Women and Youth Specialized Project Contest with 6 Projects Securing 3.3 Billion KRW in National Funding

Implementation of Customized Job Support Program for Career-Interrupted Women and Unemployed High School Graduates

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] Gyeongbuk Province announced on the 4th that six projects were finally selected in the 'Women and Youth Specialized Support Project,' part of the Ministry of Employment and Labor's regional industry-customized job creation support project. It secured the largest amount of national funding (3.3 billion KRW) among local governments nationwide.

The 'Women and Youth Specialized Support Project' is a project that creates jobs by supporting job training, employment, and start-up tailored to the characteristics of each local government for career-interrupted women and high school graduate youth in the region who face difficulties in finding employment.

The selected projects in Gyeongbuk Province include ▲ customized start-up and social economy organization establishment support for career-interrupted women ▲ education and employment support projects for reemployment of career-interrupted women ▲ capacity building for vocational high school graduate youth ▲ new job creation through activation of start-ups by high school graduate youth ▲ strengthening competitiveness of youth-friendly companies hiring unemployed high school graduates ▲ support for online job fairs to establish a non-face-to-face employment culture.

Looking into the detailed project contents, first, if a career-interrupted woman succeeds in employment through reemployment training (education) and re-advancement programs and maintains employment at the relevant workplace for three months, a settlement support fund totaling 1.2 million KRW is provided. In addition, start-up companies with items and capabilities specialized in Gyeongbuk in the start-up and social economy sectors receive support ranging from 8 million to 15 million KRW per company.

Youth-friendly companies encouraging youth employment receive support for prototype production of 15 million KRW per company for 32 cases, technical expert support of 5 million KRW for 13 cases, and overseas market development support of 5 million KRW for 13 cases, thereby promoting the growth of local SMEs and youth employment simultaneously.

Gyeongbuk Province is actively promoting projects this year with a total investment of 987.8 billion KRW in job creation support projects, aiming to create 116,351 jobs.

Baek Seong-gil, Director of the Job Economy Office of Gyeongsangbuk-do, said, "Through this Women and Youth Specialized Support Project, we will do our best to restore employment for career-interrupted middle-aged women and unemployed high school graduate youth in the region, who have been relatively left out of the job market."

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