Future Changes of HRST Policy Environment and New HRST Policy Strategies in Korea

This study aims to bring the HRST(Human Resources in Science and Technology) issues into the core governmental policy-issue, to derive the direction of future HRST policy and to show the most urgent issues. Here, HRST are people who fulfil any of the following conditions: ⅰ)successfully completed professional education equivalent to the third level in an S&T field of study ⅱ)currently employed in a S&T occupation where the above qualifications are normally required ⅲ)potentially employable in the above S&T occupation. The reason of the wider definition of HRST in this report comparing with the definition of Canberra Manual in 1995 is to allow the current convergence trend (ie. emergence of Web-designer, IT contents provider etc) and to include the S&T education under the secondary education in the Sci-Tech policy. In this study, it is reminded that the HRST policy is a human resources policy to cultivate and to provoke S&T development. The scope and definition of HRST is evolved in responding to the change of the S&T and its policy. ..