Shortcut to Body Shortcut to main menu

Business-Friendly Environment

  • Home
  • Why Jeollabuk-do
  • Business-Friendly Environment

Excellent R&D infrastructure and manpower support

Jeollabuk-do is furnished with an abundant infrastructure derived from the integration of companies, universities and administrative organizations to nurture talented manpower. It is carrying out its industry-academy-government coupling projects that aim to provide highly skilled workers, together with 300 research institutes and 36 universities and specialized high schools that strive to provide training that will foster a skilled workforce in companies.
Universities and research institutes: 30,000 new professionals every year, National research institutes: 17, Corporate research institutes: 260, University research institutes: 20, Universities: 20 Large view of images
  • Nurturing skilled/functional manpower in 36 universities and specialized high schools: Universities (23,000), Specialized high schools (2,000)
  • Jeonbuk Employment Center: Provides real-time information on job opportunities via smart phones
  • Customized manpower training projects including industry-academy-government coupling projects
  • Nurtures 1,100 skilled workers annually, 28 courses from 11 universities, approximately 1,100 companies are participating in the project

Stable labor-management culture

  • Declared the Industrial Peace for Labor-Management Harmony for the first time in Korea in 2006
  • Has the lowest frequency of labor-management disputes in the country
  • Applying for labor-management harmony programs and supporting 11 companies
  • Selected as the best place for excellent labor and management harmony in 2012
Stable labor-management culture picture Stable labor-management culture picture