1th National Plan for HRD
Brief
Korea Today and in the Future
Core Implementation Tasks for Each Area
2nd National Plan for HRD
Preface&Past Developments
Policy Vision
Policy Tasks
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Policy Tasks
¥°. Development of a globally competitive core workforce
¥±. Empowerment of all individuals for lifelong learning
¥². Facilitation of social integration and educational and cultural welfare
¥³. Expansion of infrastructure for human resources developments
¥°. Development of a globally competitive core workforce
¥°-1. Develop core talents to lead future industries

Work with all government ministries and offices to train and develop a new breed of 10,000 core individuals, interlinking initiatives in the areas of national strategic importance, including the next-generation growth engine industries and six high-technology areas ("6T")(2006 - 2010)

Identify focus areas for R&D and cultivate researchers in source technology development

Advance and reinforce basic disciplines and research, the building block of knowledge creation

Launch a mechanism that connects industry, academia, and research institutes to spur the convergence of basic, applied, and product development research activities and to attract high-caliber human resources more actively.

¥°-2. Foster professionals specialized in knowledge services

Establish a system to train and develop professionals specialized in high value-added knowledge services areas

Diversify and specialize education and training programs associated with knowledge services

Bolster the development of specialists in high-value knowledge-based services with the appropriate support infrastructure

¥°-3. Align university education with the industry more closely

Encourage universities to develop distinctive strengths or specialties that more closely align them with socioeconomic needs

Facilitate business-university cooperation to enable university education to be more responsive to the needs of the industry

Use industry-academia cooperation foundations as the fulcrum of increasing cooperation between business and university

Create infrastructure to support industry-university collaboration

¥°-4. Develop and exploit human resources on a global scale

Raise the level of foreign language proficiency of the citizens to the level required by the trend of internationalization and openness

Strategically attract and exploit international human resources

Sharpen the nation's competitive edge in education through a global approach to education

Build a system for the international utilization of human resources

¥°-5. Further the Excellence in Education Initiative

Place greater emphasis on student-centric, "level-differentiated" school programs

Improve and expand the early advancement and graduation program

Improve quantitative and qualitative levels of gifted education

Find and develop creative children gifted in science to build a platform to become a leading nation in science technology