Ministry of Employment and Labor and HRD Korea Consortium 20th Anniversary Awards Ceremony to be Held on the 18th

The Ministry of Employment and Labor (Minister Ahn Kyung-duk) and the Human Resources Development Service of Korea (President Uh Soo-bong) held the 20th anniversary celebration and excellence awards ceremony for the National Human Resources Development Consortium (hereinafter, the ‘Consortium Project’) today, the 18th.

The Consortium Project marks its 20th anniversary this year. It is a project where companies and employer organizations provide training to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with which they have agreements, utilizing their own training facilities, while the government supports the infrastructure. Since the pilot project was launched in 2001 with six institutions including Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries, as of June 2021, 142 joint training centers nationwide (71 in the large-medium-small win-win sector and 71 in the strategic sector) are participating in the project. On average each year, about 100,000 contracted companies and approximately 180,000 SME employees and prospective hires receive training.

This year’s awards ceremony, held for the third time, was conducted to encourage joint training centers that received an A grade or higher in performance evaluations such as training achievements and trainee satisfaction in 2020, and to share and spread excellent cases. Eight institutions in the large-medium-small win-win sector, including Hyundai Rotem, KT, and Samsung Heavy Industries, and twelve joint training centers in the strategic sector, including the Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation and the Gyeongbuk Center for Creative Economy & Innovation, were selected as excellent institutions and received plaques.

Especially this year, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the project, joint training centers (Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, Samsung Heavy Industries) and a dedicated staff member (Cheon Myung-jun, Team Leader at Samsung Heavy Industries) who have participated since the inception (‘01~) received merit plaques. Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, awarded the merit plaques, were recognized for systematically nurturing new skilled workers in the shipbuilding sector for 20 years under corporate leadership, and for contributing to the win-win relationship between large and small-medium enterprises by maintaining employment of skilled workers through training despite difficulties caused by COVID-19.

Park Hwa-jin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Employment and Labor, said, “As the Consortium Project, a representative government-supported training program through large-medium-small win-win cooperation, celebrates its 20th anniversary, it is a time when many changes are needed for autonomous and performance-centered training operation and digital transformation.” He added, “In particular, we will support consortium institutions to participate in the K-Digital Platform and become digital training hubs that open training infrastructure to local communities including youth and job seekers.”

Uh Soo-bong, President of the Human Resources Development Service of Korea, encouraged the achievements of excellent institutions in his opening remarks and urged efforts to expand new technology training and increase the social contribution of the Consortium Project.

Meanwhile, the Consortium Project involves large companies and employer organizations signing agreements with multiple SMEs and providing a systematic human resource development system to SMEs by utilizing their own training and education facilities. In addition, joint training centers conduct necessary training to foster a human resource ecosystem for large-medium-small enterprise win-win cooperation and talents needed in strategic industries.

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