Seoul City Supports Reemployment and Social Reintegration of Career-Interrupted Women

'Seoul Women Up Project' Promotion
Job-Seeking Support Fund of 300,000 Won for 3 Months
Additional Points Established for Caregivers

Seoul City will support the return to economic activities by providing job-seeking support funds to a total of 2,610 women with career experience this year.

On the 14th, Seoul City announced that it will promote the 'Seoul Women Up Project,' a campaign pledge by Mayor Oh Se-hoon, to support the reemployment and social reintegration of women in their 30s and 40s whose economic activities were interrupted due to pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare.

The Women Up Project consists of three parts to support women. First, there is a type that provides job-seeking support funds of 300,000 KRW per month for three months to be used for job search activities. Women can also apply for internships to gain work experience at companies for three months. Companies that hire interns as full-time employees receive an employment incentive of 3 million KRW.

Last year, 2,714 women with career experience participated in the Women Up Project and received employment support services, of which 904 (34.6%) succeeded in employment or entrepreneurship. According to a survey, participant satisfaction was 98.4% for job-seeking support funds and 94.9% for internships, indicating that the Women Up Project helped their return to economic activities.

This year, marking the second year of the Women Up Project, Seoul City has introduced additional points for caregivers, focusing on supporting the return to economic activities of women in their 30s and 40s whose careers were interrupted due to childbirth and childcare. In addition, cooperation with 26 women’s workforce development institutions will be strengthened to provide customized job-seeking services, including specialized certification courses.

Furthermore, the city will expand the public-private cooperative 'project-type' programs to connect high value-added internships and will pilot a career-filling internship support project that replaces employees on parental leave.

Seoul City will accept applications for Women Up job-seeking support funds for a total of 2,500 people this year. Recruitment will be conducted in three rounds, and the first round of 1,300 applicants can apply online through the Seoul Women Up website from the 19th of this month until the 8th of next month. Eligibility requires women aged 30 to 49 residing in Seoul who are unemployed or have not started a business, with a household income at or below 150% of the median income. Those working less than 15 hours per week are eligible to apply under the same conditions as the unemployed.

The Women Up internship will begin recruiting companies in March this year, followed by sequential recruitment of internship participants by project type starting in April. A total of 110 participants will be selected and supported this year.

Kim Seon-soon, Director of the Seoul City Women and Family Policy Office, said, "We hope the Seoul Women Up Project will be promoted as a model case where women can return to society at any time," adding, "Since we actively support customized employment and entrepreneurship services linked with women’s workforce development institutions rather than simple cash support, we look forward to the active participation of women in their 30s and 40s with career experience."

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