South Korea plans to invest $15 million 100 thousand in the next 4 years to nurture IT employees

On February 21st, the South Korean government said on Monday that it plans to invest $15 million 100 thousand over the next four years to improve the skills of local IT employees.

English.yna.co.kr reported that before the South Korean government has opened an educational promotion program, designed to promote the country's IT sector education, to provide more abundant labor resources for major companies. The message was issued by the Ministry of information and communications.

It is reported that the vast majority of investment will be directly used for the development of training courses, professional education and recruitment of talent to support the 68 domestic universities in Korea, the University of the year, the 110 IT education sector. According to South Korea's Ministry of information and communication, the spokesman said that in the next four years, the government plans to provide direct support to these educational institutions won 300 million won. "We hope that this fund can improve the competitiveness of local IT employees, and further promote the development of the IT industry in korea." Government officials said in a statement. It is reported that the university has been selected by the sponsorship departments include: electronics, electronic communications, computers and semiconductors, etc..