Oh Se-hoon's 'Support for Career-Holding Women' Leads 751 to Employment and Entrepreneurship Success

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 11th that the ‘Seoul Women Up Project’ has supported more than 2,700 women throughout this year.

The ‘Seoul Women Up Project’ is a three-part package program for women in their 30s and 40s whose economic activities have been interrupted. It includes a ‘Job-Seeking Support Fund’ (300,000 KRW × 3 months) for job search expenses, an ‘Internship’ (living wage × 3 months) to gain work experience at companies for three months, and an ‘Employment Incentive’ (1,000,000 KRW × 3 months) to support companies that hire interns as full-time employees.

First, the ‘Seoul Women Up Job-Seeking Support Fund,’ which provides financial support for job search activities to help women regain confidence lost due to long career breaks and gain the courage to challenge themselves, supported 2,614 women. The ‘Seoul Women Up Internship,’ which offers three-month internship opportunities within companies, attracted more than twice the number of applications compared to the recruitment targets of 100 companies and 100 experienced women (242 companies and 256 applicants), showing great interest and response.

Alongside the ‘Seoul Women Up Project,’ the city is also promoting the ‘Women Tech Education Platform’ project to support entry into the promising IT industry. Starting as a pilot project last year, it took its first full step this year as a campaign pledge of Mayor Oh Se-hoon. This year, about 1,600 people are participating in ‘Seoul Women IT’s,’ an online learning community for IT workers and job seekers, and among them, over 850 have improved their careers through support for offline education programs.

The city plans to strengthen support programs to help graduates connect to jobs in the future. In this regard, the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Foundation of Women & Family held a performance-sharing meeting on the 6th to review the achievements of the ‘Seoul Women Up Project’ and the ‘Women Tech Education Platform’ project over the past year.

Kim Seon-soon, Director of the Women & Family Policy Office of Seoul, said, “We are fully committed to promoting the ‘Seoul Women Up Project’ this year so that women with career breaks can return to society and engage in economic activities, believing that solving the career break issue is essential to addressing the low birthrate problem.” She added, “We will do our best to help women who had to leave the workplace due to pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare recharge their confidence to overcome the gap period and work again.”