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http://dx.doi.org/10.14702/JPEE.2021.369

Developing Strategies for Youth Overseas Employment Through a Survey of the Overseas Employed: Focusing on the K-Move Program  

Yoo, Jaehong (Actedu Inc.)
Om, Kiyong (School of Industrial Management, KOREATECH)
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Journal of Practical Engineering Education / v.13, no.2, 2021 , pp. 369-378 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently youth unemployment has long remained a nagging problem in Korea, contributing to aggravating the economy as well as the society. As an alternative solution to this problem overseas employment has been encouraged by the government who started the "K-Move" program in 2013 by integrating existing overseas employment, internship, service, and entrepreneurship support programs administered by several governmental ministries. However, employment rate of overseas job seekers was only 24.5% in 2018. This study aimed to recommend strategic directions for increasing the overseas employment rate through a questionnaire survey of the overseas employed. The factual survey results showed the following four strategic directions. First, job seekers should set clear career goals for overseas employment. Second, overseas job seekers should thoroughly prepare in advance in terms of language and related certificates. Third, IT infrastructure for offering information on overseas employment should be improved and upgraded. And, fourth, overseas employment strategies should be tailored to the specific regional or national environment. These strategic directions are expected to be of great help to overseas job seekers as well as government policymakers for formulating and implementing overseas employment support programs.
Keywords
Government support program; K-Move; Overseas employment; Survey;
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