The employment trail is a representative employment policy of Seoul, and includes visiting newly created work places, leading a social consensus through cooperation with companies, universities and labor groups, and searching for solution to job problems by creating new jobs.
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. |
Putting more power into policies for more effective ways to create new jobs by expanding the governance system among governmental, business, labor, financial, and educational institutions
Searching for need-based ways to create more jobs by listening to the opinions and ideas from experts and citizens
Sectors | Detailed plan | Contents |
Job | Suggestions from experts in job creation | • Operating Open innovation |
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 |
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 |
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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) |
Seoul Metropolitan homepage (www.seoul.go.kr) or the Investment Promotion Division
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 |