Skills for green jobs in the Republic of Korea
Since Korea’s Green Growth National Vision announcement in August 2008, Korea is attracting global attention to its comprehensive nation-wide policy measures and implementation efforts. This report particularly presents the changes in the labour market due to greening initiatives and skills development strategies for emerging green jobs. The objectives of this report are:
1) To explain major policy measures including general environmental strategy towards a green growth, green response to the current economic crisis, and skills development strategy in response to greening in Korea;
2) To discuss the green structural change and its impact on the labour market, and to outline the plans that Korea has put in place for skills response;
3) To present case studies that show actual examples of skills response to green economy in various sectors; and
4) To discuss the general issues, challenges and limitations of the current approach and suggest policy recommendations.