Busan City and Ministry of Employment and Labor Focused Support for Jobs in Tourism MICE Industry

Ministry of Employment Selected for 'Local Experience-Based Job Project' Call for Proposals

Focused Support for Jobs in Tourism and MICE Sectors with Ministry of Employment

Busan City has been finally selected in the Ministry of Employment and Labor's 'Local Experience-Based Job Project' competition and will focus on supporting jobs in Busan's core industry, the 'tourism MICE sector,' together with the Ministry of Employment and Labor.

The 'Local Experience-Based Job Project' is a linked job policy model newly promoted this year by the Ministry of Employment and Labor to enhance the performance of local job projects.

By utilizing local government’s own projects and central government projects, and promoting a project composed of linked packages among dispersed local job projects, the goal is to realize job support outcomes that local residents can directly experience.

Each region selects core industries that require focused support and forms a policy linkage package accordingly to apply, and the Ministry of Employment and Labor selects participating local governments through evaluation.

Despite favorable internal and external conditions such as excellent resources and infrastructure, industrial promotion policy direction, and the trend of tourist recovery, the city formed and applied a linkage package targeting the tourism MICE sector, which is experiencing employment difficulties due to labor shortages, and was finally selected as a participating local government.

As this is a new type of job project, the city plans to design and plan the project details together with the Ministry of Employment and Labor over the next three months and to officially launch the project as early as July.

On the 15th at 11 a.m., the city signed a memorandum of understanding at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in Sejong with the Ministry of Employment and Labor and Incheon, Chungbuk, Gyeongbuk, and Jeonbuk?regions also selected for the project?to ensure smooth progress of the regional projects.

The signing ceremony was attended by about 70 people, including Kim Gwang-hoe, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs, Lee Jeong-sik, Minister of Employment and Labor, heads of selected regions, and officials from project executing organizations. The event proceeded with the declaration of the vision for each regional project and the signing of the agreement.

Kim Gwang-hoe, Deputy Mayor for Economic Affairs of Busan City, said, “A solid local job foundation comes from the employment capacity of the region’s core industries. Through this project, we will focus on supporting jobs in the tourism MICE sector centered on linkage and collaboration, and through this, we will create a 'Busan that is good for tourism and good for working' that citizens can feel.”

Busan City Hall.

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