Strategies for Expanding to Attract Foreign Trainees to Lifelong Vocational Education Institution

In South Korea, recently government financial departments have requested to allow excellent private organizations to train foreign people for more job creation and investment activation. This item on foreign trainee acceptance was put on the agenda of the financial ministerial meeting (Jul. 30, 2014) and trade and investment promotion meeting (Aug. 12, 2014). Previously, organizations permitted to train foreigners in the country were limited to national/public training agencies or investment enterprises. Whereas private institutions were prevented for concern over illegal employment/ stay of foreign trainees; difficulty of guaranteeing training effectiveness due to language problem; difficulty of controlling poorly-managed private institutions under the reporting system for private institution establishment, etc. They were excluded from the group of organizations permitted to provide training programs for foreigners. However, criticism arose that by inhibiting all of the private educational institutions from training foreign trainees due to the possible illegal stay, etc., the government just eradicated any single change of even excellent internal/external institutions to provide programs for foreigners. Also, many successful foreign institutions came to be known in Korea, which reaped economic gains through foreign trainee programs. In this response, the Ministry of Justice announced a plan (draft) to allow excellent private educational institutions to provide foreigner training programs (Aug. 8, 2014). This revision (draft) is to be applied on the pilot basis first to institutions affiliated to a listed company or university with organized educational system for foreigners and their management. ..