National Human Resources Development Policies and Strategies under New Government System

Human Resources Development(HRD) policies are very important tools for strengthening national competitiveness in general, Korea in particular. In Korea which does not possess rich natural resources such as oil, the human resources with high quality is the most important factor to bring about economic growth. And thus, HRD policies to produce high quality HR and to utilize HR effectively must be dealt with as one of the most important national agendas. In this study, in order to support the new government, we tried to analyze the change of external environment surrounding national HRD policies, to set up new paradigm for HRD, and to draw core policies and strategies for the new HRD system. We proposed a new paradigm for NHRD, which focuses on the reform of learning curve from ‘learning for college entrance’ to ‘life-long learning’. As HRD policy direction to support ‘Lifelong Learning Curve’, we proposed life-stage approach, globalization, and indirect support through building infrastructure such as statistics and DB system. ..