Busan City Selects 13 Projects for 'Busan-Type Regional Specialized Job Program'

Customized Job Projects Selected in 13 Districts and Counties

City and Districts/Counties Collaborate to Discover and Promote Regional Representative Job Projects

Busan City is conducting a public contest targeting districts and counties for the ‘2023 Busan-type Regional Specialized Job Project’ to actively promote job projects with regional characteristics.

The ‘2023 Busan-type Regional Specialized Job Project’ is a program that supports districts, counties, and non-profit organizations related to jobs to form a consortium and discover and implement job projects tailored to regional characteristics, focusing on workforce training and employment linkage, thereby enabling proactive resolution of local job issues.

The city held a contest for 16 districts and counties in the fields of ▲education and training ▲employment linkage ▲corporate support, and after a review committee evaluated 25 submitted projects, 13 projects from 13 districts and counties were finally selected, with approximately 1.07 billion KRW to be supported this year.

The selected projects include ▲Seo-gu and Yeongdo-gu’s “Training of Specialized Personnel for Regionally Customized Work-Life Design” ▲Busanjin-gu’s “Hotel Room Attendant Training” ▲Dongnae-gu’s “Training of Specialized Social Welfare Personnel for Elderly Welfare” ▲Buk-gu’s “Training of Autonomous Vehicle Data Annotators (Labelers)” ▲Haeundae-gu’s “Support for Fostering Local Crafters in Busan” ▲Saha-gu’s “Job Creation Project for Career-Interrupted Women as Extended Childcare Teachers” ▲Geumjeong-gu’s “Training of Digital Sewing Technology Specialists” and “Training of Power Semiconductor Specialists” ▲Gangseo-gu’s “Training of On-site Workforce and Modifiers (Tuners) for Future Automobiles” ▲Yeonje-gu’s “Training of Smart Legal Administrative Staff” ▲Suyeong-gu’s “Training of Hotel Service Specialists” ▲Sasang-gu’s “Creation of On-site Customized Replacement Female Workforce Jobs” ▲and Gijang-gun’s “Training of Practical Electric Internal Wiring Personnel.”

The districts and counties plan to help a total of about 350 people find employment or start businesses by implementing the projects, operating practical, employment-linked education and training, and then supporting job matching services between employers and job seekers.

Notably, this contest project stands out for the mutual cooperation system established among districts, counties, private executing organizations, and local companies, each fully utilizing their capabilities to solve regional job issues.

▲Busanjin-gu signed a business agreement with Busan Lotte Hotel and Busanjin Women’s Human Resources Development Center and plans to conduct specialized hotel service training for marriage immigrant women seeking jobs in cooperation with the Multicultural Family Support Center, aiming to train personnel to meet the increasing tourism demand. ▲Geumjeong-gu plans to focus on supporting employment at member companies of the Busan-Gyeongnam Sewing Industry Cooperative by training digital sewing technology personnel reflecting the characteristics of the area densely populated with sewing factories.

▲Buk-gu and Busan Institute of Science and Technology’s autonomous vehicle data annotator (labeler) training project, ▲Geumjeong-gu and Busan University of Foreign Studies’ power semiconductor specialist training project in the digital new industry field, and ▲Sasang-gu and Sasang Women’s Human Resources Development Center’s on-site customized replacement female workforce job creation project are also included, which is expected to provide greater assistance to job seekers hoping to find employment in related fields.

Job seekers wishing to participate in the ‘Busan-type Regional Specialized Job Project’ can inquire at the job departments of the respective district or county offices or the executing organizations for each project.

Lee Jun-seung, Director of the Digital Economy Innovation Office of Busan City, stated, “Through the Busan-type Regional Specialized Job Project, we hope job seekers can obtain stable jobs locally, and companies can find the workforce they need in the region, helping to resolve job mismatches. We will continue to discover specialized job projects that leverage regional characteristics and strive to provide high-quality jobs that citizens can feel.”