Daejeon City Promotes Job Creation Project for 1,021 Youth

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City is promoting a job creation project to hire 1,021 young people.

The city announced on the 10th that it will carry out 28 detailed projects this year as part of the ‘Community-led Youth Job Project.’

The project will be implemented in three types: ▲Regional Innovation Type ▲Win-win Based Response Type ▲Regional Inclusion Type, and some of the existing types, ▲Regional Settlement Support Type ▲Post-COVID-19 Regional Response Type, will also continue.

The ‘Regional Innovation Type’ will promote nine projects, including a fashion expert vocational competency enhancement project, providing jobs to 125 young people. Hired youth will receive a monthly wage of 2 million KRW per person for two years, and those who work for three years will receive an additional incentive of 10 million KRW.

The ‘Win-win Based Response Type’ is a project implemented to support the growth of local start-up youth who create youth employment, and the city will support a total of 42 companies through this project. Target companies will receive 15 million KRW annually in commercialization funds and 1.5 million KRW in other support expenses, and if they hire additional youth in the second year of participation, labor costs will also be supported for one year.

The ‘Regional Inclusion Type’ will be implemented in a form that supports employment linkage within the region by providing wage support of about 1.875 million KRW per month per youth and job training. The city plans to recruit 542 people for 10 projects, including design curator training support.

A total of 249 young people will be recruited under the existing types ‘Regional Settlement Support Type’ and ‘Post-COVID-19 Response Type,’ and the participants are small and medium-sized enterprises, non-profit corporations, and organizations planning to newly hire youth. The city will first recruit workplaces to participate in the project and then publicly hire youth for each workplace.

For more detailed information about the Community-led Youth Job Project, please refer to the announcement posted on the city’s website or contact the relevant project institution for guidance.

Im Muk, Director of the City’s Job Economy Bureau, said, “We hope that the community-led youth job project will provide stable jobs to local youth and reduce the labor cost burden on companies.”

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