Changwon City to Create 10,000 Digital Youth Jobs

Signed Business Agreement with Universities, Companies, and Research Institutes

Creating a Changwon-style Digital Playground Where Youth Dream

Changwon City, Gyeongnam, held a digital youth (female) job-sharing platform business agreement ceremony on the 24th.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Seryeong] Changwon City, Gyeongnam, signed a business agreement with 28 companies and related organizations on the 24th to create AI-centered digital youth jobs.

The signing ceremony was attended by Mayor Heo Seong-mu, Lee Su-hyun, Vice President of Research and Industry-Academia Cooperation at Changwon National University, representatives from six universities, three research institutes including Jang Young-jin, Director of the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Doosan Heavy Industries Vice President Lee Hee-jik, four major corporations, and representatives from 15 IT companies and related organizations including Gyeongnam Technopark.

The attendees agreed to cooperate on ▲establishing a shared platform for youth job creation ▲expanding high-quality AI-centered digital youth jobs that are good workplaces ▲training human resources for local talent recruitment ▲joint use of facilities and spaces, both paid and free, to support employment.

At the digital youth job vision proclamation ceremony held that day, the city presented a phased vision of “Changwon Special City, the center of the Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam Mega City, creating a Changwon-style digital playground where youth can dream.”

Through cooperation among government, industry, academia, and research institutes, the city announced plans to create 3,300 high-quality youth jobs including women’s jobs by the end of this year as a start, and to create 10,000 youth jobs over the next three years.

By 2024, in connection with Gyeongnam Technopark, the city plans to establish the “Changwon-style Ecole 42” education program, which annually selects hopefuls regardless of major or university graduation status to nurture them as software experts and foster digital talent.

They intend to link companies and recruitment so that students and youth who complete the training courses at major corporation talent development institutions can be immediately employed by companies.

The city is planning to build a Changwon-style ICT Valley centered on the Southeast Headquarters of the Korea Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), currently located at the Agricultural Technology Center, where work, rest, and play coexist, and plans to additionally establish an ICT Valley within Masan Marine New City.

A Changwon city official said, “We will proactively respond to future employment market changes by nurturing professionals in smart industries linked to the city’s future industries in digital spaces, and take the lead in fostering AI smart industries and global marketers.”

Mayor Heo Seong-mu said, “We will create an environment where major corporations hire graduates from local universities so that talents settle in Changwon, and a virtuous cycle is formed where talents from other regions return to Changwon.”

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