Gangwon-do Hosts Employment and Entrepreneurship Festival for 'Women Seeking Jobs and Working Women'

'Gangwon Women's Job and Story Festival' Opens on the 20th... Held Online and Offline

[Asia Economy Reporter Ra Young-cheol] The Gangwon-do Job Foundation and employment-related organizations in the Gangwon region are jointly hosting an event to support women's employment and entrepreneurship within Gangwon-do, titled "Gangwon Women’s Jobs and Stories Festival."

According to the Job Foundation on the 19th, the Saeil Center, a women-tailored employment and entrepreneurship support institution, will hold the event under the slogan "Meet Saeil, Find Saeil." Starting with the opening ceremony on the 20th, a flea market and various side events will be held both online and offline for two weeks.

In the online events, customized employment and entrepreneurship lectures will be offered by interviewers from IT fields such as web development, marketing, and design, as well as medical and welfare sectors, covering topics like image making, communication know-how, successful entrepreneurship solutions, and employment strategies in the untact era and AI era.

Through a contest for preventing and overcoming career breaks and a talk concert, successful employment and entrepreneurship cases will be shared to help create a work-life balance where women can continuously work.

In particular, the grand prize winner of the career break prevention contest, Ms. Lee Mi-ja, will share her success story of returning to her hometown Jeongseon in Gangwon-do after living abroad and managing three jobs simultaneously, along with nine other cases introduced via video.

At the talk concert, attendees can hear about career continuity cases from a local entrepreneur who started a business using local specialties and tourism resources in Yeongwol, three female representatives from Hwacheon who relocated from the metropolitan area and succeeded in entrepreneurship despite military border area regulations, and a management consultant.

This event, held for the first time this year, is led by the Gangwon Regional Saeil Center within the Job Foundation and co-hosted by eight regional Saeil Centers, the Gangwon Regional Small and Medium Venture Business Administration, the Gangwon Employment and Labor Office, and the Gangwon Women and Family Research Institute.

No Myung-woo, CEO of the Gangwon-do Job Foundation, said, "Although all social classes are struggling due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, women have been hit harder by employment shocks, so we prepared this event to provide meticulous and focused support." He added, "We plan to continue efforts to help women find new jobs and maintain their careers."