해외투자기업연수생제도의 실태와 개선방안

Realities and Policy Options of the Industrial Skill Trainee Program for Overseas-invested FirmsKil-sang YooThe Industrial Skill Trainee Program for Overseas- invested Firms is the oldest labor migration program in the Republic of Korea. The size of immigrants by the Program has been relative small in its volume, and this has resulted in little concern to the public. This Program, however, has more severe problems compared to other labor migration programs in the Republic of Korea. Thus this study aims to analyze the realities and problems of the Industrial Skill Trainee Program for Overseas- invested Firms and to suggest policy options for innovating the Program.This study used not only the Ministry of Justice's original data for Industrial Skill Trainees for Overseas-invested Firms but also the survey data for both trainees and employers who are employing those trainees in analyzing the realities and problems of the Industrial Skill Trainee Program for Overseas-invested FirmsThe major problems of the Industrial Skill Trainee Program for Overseas-invested Firms are: this Program has been used as a means of utilizing foreign labor in the name of trainees rather than training them, lots of brokers have committed an injustice in the process of the program because the processes of selecting trainees and their entries have not been transparent, and the management system on foreign trainees and the firms employing trainees has not been operated successfully. Thus the Industrial Skill Trainee Program for Overseas-invested Firms should be converted to the pure skill training program for foreign workers and the demand for migrant workers should be fulfilled by the newly introduced Employment Permit System. Also the processes of selecting trainees and their entries should be transparent to prevent any injustice, and Korean government should develop efficient management system on trainees and firms employing trainees.