The Employment Trail 2016

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Employment Trail

History

Classification	2015	2016
Significance	Beginning the Employment Trail	Pushing ahead with the Employment Trail
Main contents	Visiting work places and hearing opinions in the field. Diagnosis of opportunities and issues in the job market	Suggesting solutions for employment
Period	Oct. 7- Oct. 31, 2015	Designating the last week of every month as “Job Week”
Governance system	Organizing a private/public joint council by policy and region	Systemizing the joint council governance system and keeping its operation on track.

■ Goals

Completion of a virtuous cycle of growth, employment, and welfare
Encouraging participation and cooperation from society to solve job problems
Evaluation and further suggestions for the Employment Trail 2015
– Putting into practice suggestions from companies and citizens and troubleshooting problem areas
– Making efforts towards implementation of the Seoul Metropolitan City’s promises with citizens, and providing information activities on them by way of announcements of new policies, signing MOUs, etc.

Widening the Channels for Citizens’ Participation

Searching for need-based ways to create more jobs by listening to the opinions and ideas from experts and citizens

Making more efforts to gain trust in administration from the society through cooperation with the private sector and building consensus with the target citizens of the policies
Holding events with participation of the citizens, such as Hackathons, utilizing the Collective Intelligence
Practicing Open Innovation to get more suggestions on job policies by experts

Sectors	Detailed plan	Contents
Job	Suggestions from experts in job creation	• Operating Open innovation
Job	Opening Job Hackathon	• Talk with the mayor on jobs (Job談)
Start-up	Global hardware start-up Cup	• Vitalization of manufacturing start-up based on technology • Makerthon (twice)
Innovation	Small Policy Expo	• Transportation, welfare policy brainstorm (twice) • Citizens’ difficulties idea brainstorm (twice) • Seoul Metropolitan Policy idea brainstorm (six times)

Schedules	Subject	Main contents
April	Economic Democratization, Respect for Labor	• Holding Seoul Labor Forum • Visiting temporary and full-time workplaces • Visiting on-going tasks for economic democratization
May	Creating jobs for youth	• Youth enterprise CEO round-table meeting • Youth Employment Forum • Meeting with CEOs’ of Small Giant companies and young job seekers
June	Fostering promising industries customized to Seoul	• Summit for fostering Yangjae R&D Complex • The Announcement of comprehensive plans to vitalize the Biomedical industry • Round-table meeting of medium and small firms by industry
September	Creating jobs in social economy	• Visiting the top cooperative associations • Hackathon on The vitalizing social economy • Contest and Fashion Show of Social Innovation Design
October	Attracting domestic and foreign investment	• Korea-China investment week events • Global job fair • Seoul International Finance Conference
November	Create jobs for the vulnerable	• Opening the 50+ Campus • Opening the Lifelong Education Center for Developmental Disabilities • Visiting common and self-supporting workplaces for the homeless

Employment Trail 2016

Sectors	Schedules	Contents
Support for Medium and Small Businesses	Feb. 22	Subsidizing companies (foreign-invested companies) creating new jobs • Subjects: foreign investment for new growth engines in eight areas • Supporting every employee up to ten for up to six months, With KRW 100 million for each employee • Subsidizing businesses having educational sessions at A vocational training institution
Solving Youth Unemployment	Feb. 29	Youth Job Creation Summit (five university presidents) • MOU for supporting jobs for young people • Operating job creation centers at universities
	Mar. 17	Opening the Youth Agency and holding discussion on creating innovative jobs
	Mar. 22	• Youth Job Creation Summit (four university presidents) • MOU for supporting jobs for young people
Economic Democratization	Mar. 11	A disussion on appropriate wages
Fostering Promising Industries	Mar. 11	Summit for fostering photovoltaic industry (Hanwha Q CELLS) • Searching for solutions to boost public participation in renewable energy projects • Operate a photovoltaic start-up school and build a policy cooperate net
Support to Find Jobs for the Vulnerable	Mar. 14	Expanding the opportunities for silver jobs (increased by 12.8%, year-on-year) in three areas (public beneficial activities, market, manpower dispatching)
Fostering Urban Industry	Mar. 25	Visiting job places for the youth including Seongsu-dong Handmade Shoes Street (SSST)

Reference

Seoul Metropolitan homepage (www.seoul.go.kr) or the Investment Promotion Division

Employment Trail 2015

Sectors	Schedules	Contents
Visiting WorkPlaces	Oct. 7-31	• Visited 99 workplaces and listened to public opinion • Opened 43 times of Meetings and debates • Announcement 20 policies to solve the unemployment problem
Setting Up a Governance System	Oct. 7	Set up a governance system and signing MOU with 17 institutions from various areas • The central government, education, labor, financial community, and education institutions
Supporting Economic Activities for the Youth	Planned for 2016	• Formed a consultative group with young merchants • Opened and expanded the number of regular night markets • Held work Hackathon on a regular basis • Expanded New Deal Job Policy
Enhancing the support for medium and small businesses	Planned for 2016	• Fostered distribution experts • Accumulated KRW 30 billion in Seoul Metropolitan foreign funds • Opened Seoul foreign investment forum • Consulted for legal, tax, patent and accounting issues • Supported the vitalizing of main industrial complexes Yangjae R&D, Magok, Hongneung, G-valley
Supporting disadvantaged group in employment	Planned for 2016	• Expanded the number of support centers for working moms (four more centers by 2019) - operating call center exclusively for working moms • Expanded Seoul’s silver parcel delivery service • Supported the socially weak such as the disabled, the homeless, etc.
Securing fundamental labor rights	Planned for 2016	• Operating Ombudsman system in labor areas • Developing a model for Seoul-customized working hours reduction