Kim Seung-ho, Head of Personnel Office, Visits US NASA... "First Step Toward Human Exchange Alliance"

From the 17th to the 20th, U.S. Tour... Meeting with U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director to Discuss Talent Exchange

Kim Seung-ho, the head of the Ministry of Personnel Management, will tour major U.S. federal government agencies and organizations in Washington, D.C. starting from the 17th. In particular, he will visit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which has an excellent system in organizational management and talent recruitment, to review its organizational operation plans and meet with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) director to discuss personnel administration.

On the 17th, he will first sign a memorandum of understanding with the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) and seven partner organizations to attract outstanding overseas talent in the science and technology fields as national talent. This is the first agreement the Ministry of Personnel Management has made with overseas private organizations, aiming to register science and technology experts with globalization capabilities in the national talent database and provide various opportunities to participate in Korean government policies.

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On the 18th, as the first head of a central government agency to do so, he will meet with Kiran Ahuja, the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Director Kiran Ahuja, the first Asian-American female OPM director, and Director Kim will share experiences on personnel innovation and hold a signing ceremony for a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation, including personnel exchanges.

He will also visit the headquarters of NASA. NASA has maintained the number one position for over 10 years in the annual "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government" survey conducted by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. During this visit, the Ministry of Personnel Management plans to learn about NASA’s personnel and organizational management methods and discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining science and technology talent necessary for the operation of the Korea Aerospace Agency (KASA), which is scheduled to be established this year.

Additionally, meetings are scheduled with Korean-American organizations and related institutions in the economic and cultural fields, such as the Korea Economic Institute of America, the World Bank Korea Staff Association, and the Korea Society. Through these meetings, the government plans to explain its policy efforts and related systems for recruiting overseas Korean talent into public service and discuss mutual cooperation with overseas organizations to expand the discovery of overseas talent by sector.

Director Kim Seung-ho said, "This tour will be the first step to strengthen various cooperation in personnel administration, including personnel exchanges with the U.S. federal government, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Korea-U.S. alliance, and to concretize alliances in personnel exchanges and science and technology fields. We will focus on discovering and attracting outstanding talent from various overseas sectors and promote personnel administration that contributes to national interests."

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