Sojinkong Holds Online Junior Board via Metaverse

Utilizing Metaverse Platform... 2021 1st Junior Board Meeting Held Online

On the 9th, Chairman Jo Bong-hwan is attending a Junior Board meeting using the metaverse platform Gather Town.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The Small Enterprise and Market Service (Chairman Jo Bong-hwan) announced on the 9th that it held this year's first 'Junior Board' meeting online using the metaverse platform 'Gather Town.'

The Junior Board is a system established to discover innovative ideas through bottom-up opinion expression and horizontal communication, targeting young employees under the age of 39 and with less than five years of service as next-generation managers. It has been promoted since 2019. In its inaugural year, 2019, a total of 12 innovation proposals were discovered, of which nine were incorporated into official systems. Despite difficulties in holding meetings due to COVID-19 last year, nine tasks were identified, and five were reflected in policies.

This year, to overcome the limitations of face-to-face meetings caused by COVID-19, the Junior Board was held as a non-face-to-face online meeting using the metaverse platform. At this year's first Junior Board, 22 participants attended and diagnosed all areas within the service, including management, organization, culture, and support projects, freely exchanging opinions in a brainstorming format.

The Small Enterprise and Market Service plans to continue holding regular online and offline meetings to discover improvement tasks for the service, as well as to promote activities such as publishing the Junior Board newsletter, enhancing member capabilities training, social contribution activities, and workshops to resolve intergenerational conflicts and build consensus within the service.

Chairman Jo Bong-hwan of the Small Enterprise and Market Service said, "Free organizational diagnosis and opinion exchange by young employees as next-generation managers are essential for the development of the service," adding, "Through the Junior Board, we will actively support both online and offline efforts to create a flexible organizational culture, reflect the values of the younger generation, discover and apply improvement tasks, and thereby create future value for the service."

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