[Seoul District News] Songpa-gu Hosts One-Stop Hiring Event from July 18-19 at District Office Auditorium with 10 Companies Including Emart Everyday and Coupang Offering 160+ Jobs... Gangnam-gu's 'Startup Hiring Festival' Attracts Over 4,000 Job Seekers... Gangbuk-gu Provides Up to 150 Million KRW in 3rd SME Development Fund Loans... Seocho-gu Holds 2022 'Cheongnyeom Live' Training on July 12 at Seocho Cultural Arts Center... Seongdong-gu Offers Up to 8 Million KRW Including HVAC Support for Sewing Companies
[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Songpa-gu (Mayor Seo Gang-seok) will hold the ‘Employment Success 19 Day’ at 3 p.m. on the 18th and 19th at the Songpa-gu Office auditorium.
‘19 Day’ means ‘the day to find a job (1) in the district (9),’ a small-scale job fair that pre-matches recruiting companies and job seekers so that interviews and hiring can proceed on site.
This event is co-hosted by Songpa-gu, Seoul Eastern Employment Welfare+ Center, and the Korea Information Security Industry Association to provide customized job support. Ten promising companies in the ICT (information security), distribution, and service sectors will participate, planning to hire about 160 talents.
On the first day, the 18th, five companies?Emart Everyday, Kim Young-mo Confectionery, Hyundai Catering System, Samgu I&C, and Coupang Fulfillment Service?will recruit young people, women, and middle-aged job seekers for production, sales, distribution, cooking, and facility management roles.
On the 19th, the focus will be on the information security industry. Five companies?Giwon Tech, CAS, NSecure, Waterwall Systems, and Core Security?will participate, planning to hire about 60 young talents in cyber security diagnosis, consulting, and development.
Job seekers wishing to participate must complete pre-registration by the 14th via phone or in-person visit to the Songpa Job Center. On the event day, they should visit the matched company booths according to their interview schedule.
Detailed information about participating companies and job positions can be found on the Songpa-gu Office website and the Songpa Job Center website.
After ‘Employment Success 19 Day,’ the district will continue to provide follow-up services such as employment retention monitoring and job placement for participating job seekers and companies.
Kim Seok-jong, Director of Job Policy, stated, “We will actively promote various employment support measures such as youth-friendly small and medium enterprise recruitment briefings, employment-linked ICT expert training, and youth CEO forums to nurture the dreams of Songpa-gu youth and lead regional economic growth.”
Gangnam-gu (Mayor Jo Seong-myeong) successfully concluded the ‘2022 Gangnam-gu Startup Recruitment Festival’ held at COEX Startup Branch from the 4th to the 5th.
Since 2018, Gangnam-gu has held this event annually to gather job seekers and promising startups in one place to build a virtuous cycle ecosystem for talent recruitment.
This year, 26 companies including J Stamp and Alpha Circle operated recruitment and promotion booths, attracting 4,360 job seekers?3,150 online and 1,210 offline. Companies conducted on-site interviews and online interviews via the video conferencing platform ZOOM, and the event was broadcast live on Gangnam-gu Office’s YouTube channel.
The district prepared various side events such as employment talk concerts, one-on-one and group mentoring, interview styling, and career MBTI. Renowned figures including Professor Kim Nan-do of Seoul National University, former Kakao Vice President Hwang Seong-hyun, IBM Executive Director Kim Hyung-seok, and YouTuber Kim Do-yoon were invited to give lectures on employment trends, global talent, and financial technology.
Mayor Jo Seong-myeong of Gangnam-gu said, “Gangnam-gu is the undisputed ‘Mecca of Startup Entrepreneurship’ with the largest startup infrastructure in Korea. We will continue to spare no effort in investment and support through policies that combine talent development, quality job creation, and employment linkage programs to uphold Gangnam’s reputation as the economic center of Korea.”
Gangbuk-gu (Mayor Lee Soon-hee) is promoting the ‘2022 3rd Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund Loan Support Project’ for small and medium enterprises and small business owners in the region.
The ‘Gangbuk-gu Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund Loan Support Project’ is a program that loans facility and operating funds to small business owners in the region using the district’s own Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund budget.
Applicants must operate a business in Gangbuk-gu and be small and medium enterprises or small business owners with real estate collateral capacity according to bank credit regulations. However, industries such as tobacco, liquor, precious metals, bars, finance, and real estate are excluded.
The district plans to apply an annual interest rate of 0.8% temporarily for 2022, down from 1.5%, with a 1-year grace period and 4-year equal installment repayment, providing loans up to 150 million KRW per company.
Support decisions will be finalized through the review of the Gangbuk-gu Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund Operation Deliberation Committee. Depending on the review, loan amounts may be adjusted within collateral evaluation or excluded from loan eligibility.
Applicants can apply from the 25th to July 11th at the Job Economy Division on the 6th floor of Gangbuk-gu Office. Before applying, they must complete collateral evaluation confirmation at Shinhan Bank Gangbuk-gu Office branch by July 9th.
Required documents include loan application form, business plan, copy of business registration certificate, corporate registry, national and local tax payment certificates, which can be checked on the Gangbuk-gu website. For more details, contact the Job Economy Division of Gangbuk-gu.
Mayor Lee Soon-hee of Gangbuk-gu said, “We will generously support small and medium enterprises and small business owners to revitalize the local economy. We will also continue to promote various support projects to build industrial infrastructure in Gangbuk-gu.”
Seocho-gu (Mayor Jeon Seong-su) announced that it will hold the 2022 ‘Integrity Live’ education for the first-class clean city Seocho at 2 p.m. on the 12th at the Seocho Culture and Arts Center.
This education is designed to raise public officials’ interest in integrity and spread an integrity culture, with about 600 employees including Mayor Jeon Seong-su and district executives attending.
The district prepared this education in collaboration with the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission’s Integrity Training Institute, using cultural and artistic content to make the somewhat rigid topic of ‘integrity’ more enjoyable and comfortable for employees to cultivate an integrity mindset and spread an integrity culture.
The education will include various programs such as a special lecture on the Conflict of Interest Prevention Act enforced since May 19, a Pansori (traditional Korean narrative singing) ‘Chunhyangjeon’ depicting Lee Mong-ryong’s becoming a high-ranking public official by passing the state examination, sand art reflecting on the meaning of integrity in daily life, and an inspiring integrity video featuring interviews and support from actual public officials.
Last year, the district received the highest grade among Seoul autonomous districts in the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission’s integrity evaluation. This year, it continues efforts to improve integrity, including operating an integrity triangle for managing corruption-prone construction supervision, sending ‘integrity text messages’ to construction contractors with contracts over 5 million KRW to guide the corruption reporting center, and operating the anonymous mobile reporting channel ‘Seocho Integrity Talk.’
Mayor Jeon Seong-su of Seocho-gu said, “I hope this education will be an opportunity to think once more about the importance and value of integrity and to foster a clean public service culture.”
Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jung Won-oh) will support up to 8 million KRW per company to improve the working environment of sewing workers.
After being selected for the ‘2022 Seoul-type Garment Manufacturing Company Working Environment Improvement Contest Project,’ Seongdong-gu recruited garment manufacturing companies in April and selected 53 companies through the Seoul City contest review committee. With a total budget of 250 million KRW, selected companies will receive up to 8 million KRW per company excluding a 20% self-payment portion.
Items supported for working environment improvement include about 40 items such as fire extinguishers and fire detectors to reduce fire risk, air conditioners and LED lighting for a comfortable work environment, industrial vacuum cleaners, and cutting tables to improve work efficiency and productivity.
More than half of garment manufacturing companies are located underground, making ventilation difficult due to dust and lint from fabrics, with old electrical facilities and flammable synthetic fibers mixed in. The district official explained that this support project will transform these poor environments into much more comfortable workplaces.
Seongdong-gu, home to over 2,000 garment manufacturing companies concentrated in areas like Hongik-dong and Doseon-dong, opened the Seongdong Smart Fashion Center (‘21.4) to create a joint production infrastructure for garment manufacturing, including smart automation equipment (automatic cutting machines), and continues to provide various support to garment companies.
Additionally, in March, the district launched the ‘Seongdong-gu National Design Team’ to actively identify and find solutions to problems faced by unregistered sewing industry workers, known as ‘Gaekgong,’ from their perspective.
Last month, the district distributed 300 ‘special waste collection boxes’ and 1,000 cool mat cushions to sewing workers, accelerating Seongdong-type ESG practices that enhance values of ‘safety’ and ‘environment’ along with recycling rates of collected special waste.
Mayor Jung Won-oh of Seongdong-gu said, “I hope this will help garment manufacturing companies and workers who are the backbone of the local industry despite difficult conditions. We will continue efforts to protect workers’ health and safety.”
Gwangjin-gu (Mayor Kim Kyung-ho) is establishing a resource circulation system that recycles coffee grounds as eco-friendly resources and is recruiting coffee shops to participate in the coffee grounds recycling project.
Only 0.2% of coffee beans are used after extraction, and 99.8% become grounds that are discarded as household waste through landfill or incineration. In this process, coffee shops bear the cost of volume-based waste bags, and the district bears incineration and landfill costs.
In April, Gwangjin-gu signed a business agreement with the local social cooperative ‘Resources and Circulation,’ which has specialized technology for coffee grounds recycling, launching the ‘Coffee Grounds Recycling Project’ to utilize 99.8% of coffee grounds as valuable resources.
Coffee shops only need to separately store coffee grounds in their stores, and the collection company visits the stores on designated days and times to collect the grounds.
Through this, participating shops can display the ‘Eco Cafe Certification Sticker’ to promote themselves as eco-friendly businesses creating green consumption, while reducing household waste disposal costs.
The collected coffee grounds will be recycled as cattle feed and eco-friendly wood raw materials.
The district is recruiting coffee shops to join the project from this month, targeting about 600 coffee shops in the area. Interested businesses can apply by filling out an application form on the Gwangjin-gu website and submitting it via email. For more details, contact the Gwangjin-gu Cleaning Division.
Mayor Kim Kyung-ho of Gwangjin-gu said, “The coffee grounds recycling project not only reduces costs for coffee shops but also greatly contributes to the environment by reducing greenhouse gases. We hope for active participation. The district will continue to promote various policies to achieve a sustainable future such as carbon neutrality.”
Additionally, the district is promoting the 2022 public-private cooperation project ‘Making Clean Gwangjin through Resource Circulation Activities,’ operating various programs that allow residents to practice resource circulation in daily life, including the ‘Coffee Grounds Recycling Project,’ ‘Resource Circulation Activist Training Program,’ and ‘Plogging for Resource Circulation.’
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