Overseas Career Development Policy and the Innovative Policy Agenda for Career Education in Korea

This study emphasizes the role of career development as a bridge between promotion of lifelong learning and public policy in an uncertain future, and it was conducted with the purpose of seeking development plan of the career education in Korea through review of overseas career development policy. The purpose of this study was to collect and analyze overseas career development policies and therefore, to propose future innovative policy agenda and implications for career education in Korea. Specifically, this research has the purpose of presenting the future direction of career education in the following three areas; program and content of career development, career development practitioners’ training, and career service innovation. For this purpose, we reviewed the research literature on overseas major career development institutes such as ELGPN and ICCDPP to draw out public policy key issues that consistently go to domestic and foreign countries. Also, we revised the history of career education policy since 1982 in Korea. Moreover, based on the recommendation of the career development public policy by OECD's career education experts who came to Korea in 2002, we conducted the FGI (Focused Group Interview) of local career development experts to see how the level of Korea's career development public policy has improved as of 2017. This study suggested a new innovative agenda for career education policy in Korea. The innovative policy agenda of career education consists of four primary directions, four basic preconditions, and the detail 30 tasks-to-be from elementary education level to life-long learning level by three key areas of career development issues (① program and contents, ② career development practitioners’ training, and ③ career service innovation). ..