Presidential Secretariat's Youth Future Advisory Panel holds final meeting after six months, producing six policy tasks from 40 ideas

Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik poses for a photo with participants after the final meeting of the Presidential Secretariat's Youth Future Advisory Panel at Cheong Wa Dae on Sunday. The panel, launched in November last year under Kang's leadership, held six meetings over six months and identified 40 policy ideas, from which six final policy tasks were drawn through review and consultation with related ministries. [Yonhap]
Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik poses for a photo with participants after the final meeting of the Presidential Secretariat's Youth Future Advisory Panel at Cheong Wa Dae on Sunday. The panel, launched in November last year under Kang's leadership, held six meetings over six months and identified 40 policy ideas, from which six final policy tasks were drawn through review and consultation with related ministries. [Yonhap]

The Presidential Secretariat's Youth Future Advisory Panel, chaired by Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik, has wrapped up six months of activity and produced six policy tasks.

Cheong Wa Dae said Kang presided over the panel's final meeting Sunday morning.

The panel was launched in November last year with Kang as its head and has brought together young people directly affected by youth issues, community activists and experts to discuss a wide range of concerns facing the younger generation. Sunday's meeting was convened to conclude the panel's six months of work and formally present its final policy recommendations to Cheong Wa Dae.

Over six meetings in total, the panel generated 40 policy ideas.

After review and consultation with related ministries, six final policy tasks were selected: building a freelance career certification system (Ministry of Employment and Labor); a K-rural and fishing village youth working holiday program (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs); establishing a one-stop youth credit and financial counseling support system (Financial Services Commission); creating a Youth Opportunity Guarantee program (Ministry of Employment and Labor); introducing and operating a comprehensive youth policy counseling service (Office for Government Policy Coordination); and launching a "first steps into society" education program for high school seniors (Office for Government Policy Coordination).

On the freelance career certification system — one of the six final tasks — Kang said panel members had shared the reality faced by young people who work but receive no formal recognition of their experience. "I told them we must find a way to resolve this problem," he said, calling it "a good example of young people's concerns developing into actual policy."


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