Supporting IT Industry for Overseas Advancement, 300 Personnel from 38 Nations Invited for Training

In order to support Information Technology (IT) industry’s overseas advancement, the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) announced on the 25th that 300 individuals of IT manpower from 38 strategic nations of overseas advancement, including China and India, are to be invited this year for special training.

The training program will be divided into 15 separate courses, which will each take 7 to 12 days between May and November. They will include various subdivisions, such as high-rank policy makers’ course, intermediary managers’ course, IT journalists’ course, and special course for international cooperation promotion.

In this year, the government is to focus on manpower from east-European regions like Hungary, Rumania, and Poland, apart from China, India, south-east Asia, and south-central America.

MIC plans to prepare supportive measures of making a database of the invitees’ profiles, and provide it to domestic enterprises that promote overseas advancement.

Tae-Han Kim freewill@donga.com