Jungjingong 'K-Tech College' Matches Over 100 Vietnamese SW Personnel with Domestic Startups

SBC to Collaborate with Vietnamese Universities
for Nurturing Software Talent

The Small and Medium Business Corporation (SBC) supplied more than 100 Vietnamese software (SW) developers to domestic startups. This was achieved through the 'Overseas Workforce Employment Matching Support Project (K-Tech College),' a new initiative launched last year. As the project, which fosters high-quality overseas SW developers and supports job matching with domestic startups, has shown concrete results, this year they plan to expand the talent pool by collaborating with local universities in Vietnam.

According to SBC on the 10th, 107 people have successfully found employment with Korean companies through the Overseas Workforce Employment Matching Support Project, which recruited and trained 200 people last year. SBC implemented this project last year to support Vietnamese SW personnel, who have relatively high technical skills and lower labor costs, to domestic startups facing recruitment difficulties, and to promote the influx of foreign students in Korea into small and medium-sized ventures. They formed a group of 200 people consisting of locally recruited personnel and domestic foreign students, providing education and employment linkage. More than half of the talent pool in the project's first year actually found jobs in domestic companies.

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Accordingly, SBC decided to actively foster SW talent and connect them to domestic startup employment this year by collaborating with local universities in Vietnam. To this end, SBC signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Vietnam-Korea University of Information and Communication Technology (VKU), located in Da Nang, Vietnam, on this day. On the 8th, they also signed an MOU with Ho Chi Minh University of Technology (HUTECH) to strengthen the employment linkage base between excellent local SW talent and K-startups.

First, with VKU, they agreed to actively cooperate on enhancing practical SW skills education, matching employment with Korean startups, and jointly hosting mentoring, seminars, and job fairs. Specifically, SBC will select Vietnamese local trainees interested in employment with Korean startups and support them from theory and practice centered on startup work, Korean language education, Korean corporate culture education, to employment linkage. VKU will be responsible for recruiting trainees, providing infrastructure such as lecture halls, and hosting seminars and job fairs. SBC also plans to discover SW personnel wishing to work in Korea through HUTECH and cultivate customized practical talent needed by domestic startups.

Lim Ji-hyun, head of SBC's Youth Startup Academy, said, "We hope this agreement will be a practical help in resolving the shortage of SW developers in Korean startups," and added, "We will continue to expand the cooperation model with local universities in Vietnam."

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