Inje County Protects Youth Jobs Despite End of National Funding... Recruiting 7 Participants with Its Own Budget

Inje County Independently Promotes Youth Job Support Project

Inje County in Gangwon Province is recruiting participants for the "2026 Youth Job Support Project" to help local young people find jobs and settle in the region.

Exterior view of Inje-gun Office.

This project has been prepared to discover and match jobs suitable for young people in the region, thereby expanding employment opportunities and helping them establish a stable livelihood in Inje County.

Wage support under the existing "Regional Innovation-Type Youth Job Project" will end in February 2025, and national funding has been discontinued. As a result, many cities and counties in the province have been unable to continue the project.

Amid this situation, Inje County is independently converting and promoting the project by investing 120 million won of its own county budget to minimize gaps in youth employment.

Currently, among the 18 cities and counties in Gangwon Province, only 3, including Inje County, are operating youth job support projects with their own budgets.

The recruitment scale is 7 people across 4 companies, and the application period runs from February 11 to March 6.

Applications are submitted by young people visiting their desired workplaces in person.

Eligible applicants are young people aged 18 or older and 49 or younger as of January 1, 2026 (born between January 16, 2007 and January 15, 1977), who either currently reside in Inje County or plan to move there.

If a resident of another region is selected as a participant, they must move into Inje County within one month from the date of notification and report this to the Economic and Industrial Division of Inje County.

Working conditions vary by workplace, but at least the minimum wage will be paid, and the standard monthly wage is 2,156,880 won or more. Employment must be maintained for at least 6 months, and enrollment in the four major social insurance programs is mandatory.

Final selection will be made after interviews conducted by each workplace, and interview schedules will be individually notified.

The county plans to manage a list of final non-hired applicants and, in the event of future replacement hiring, will connect them to job openings through individual contact.

Shin Sunmi, Head of the Economic and Industrial Division, said, "Through the Youth Job Support Project, we will actively support young people by providing suitable local jobs so that they can settle stably in Inje County."

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