Busan labor education council meeting set for Thursday; nine regions to identify education needs and cooperative projects this year
The Korea Employment and Labor Education Institute will work with labor and management groups and local government in Busan to identify labor education priorities suited to the region. The institute plans to assess local education demand and connect resources — including instructors and funding — to expand tailored, lifelong labor education.
The institute announced Tuesday that it will co-host the "Busan Regional Lifelong Labor Education Council Meeting" with the Busan Metropolitan City Labor-Management-Government-Civil Society Council at Busan City Hotel on Thursday.
The meeting will be led by the labor education TF subcommittee under the Busan council. Representatives from Busan's labor and management organizations, the city government and the Busan Regional Employment and Labor Office will attend to share the current state of local labor education, discuss on-the-ground training needs and explore ways to strengthen inter-agency cooperation.
The institute is forming regional councils through the labor-management-government-civil society subcommittees to help communities identify their own labor education agendas and sustain ongoing discussion. The councils are responsible for discussing the direction of regional labor education, conducting education demand surveys and identifying cooperative projects, linking resources such as instructors and budgets, and making policy proposals and building networks.
This year, the institute invited all 17 metropolitan and provincial labor-management-government-civil society councils nationwide to participate, and nine regions were selected to operate councils. The Busan meeting is the seventh, following those in South Jeolla Province, Gwangju, South Chungcheong Province, Gyeonggi Province, Gangwon Province and Jeju. Meetings in Sejong and South Gyeongsang Province are scheduled for Oct. 20 and Oct. 29, respectively.
The institute plans to develop and provide education content tailored to different life stages, and to support expert training and curriculum operations. It will also help spread successful local models to other regions, reinforcing a labor education approach in which communities identify and act on their own training needs.
The collaboration is part of the institute's "Employment and Labor Education 2.0" strategy. Key priorities under the strategy include promoting lifelong labor education, strengthening labor-management and social dialogue capacity, training employment and labor administration specialists, and reinforcing the institute's role as a national hub for labor education — all in response to structural changes in industry and evolving labor issues.
"Together with the Busan Labor-Management-Government-Civil Society Council, we will build a tight labor education network so that 'Employment and Labor Education 2.0' translates into real change on the ground, and contribute to realizing a society that respects labor," institute President Lee Jong-seon said.
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