Policy Training

City officials overseas training

Founded in 1962, Seoul Human Resources Development Center has offered training programs targeting Seoul and local officials, and foreign officials. In particular, since 2008, it has operated overseas programs for foreign city officials to promote cooperation through sharing policy cases and to develop human resources of foreign cities.

Training topics include transportation, e-government, water supply, urban management, climate change policy, and best practice policies that city of Seoul would like to share. The course trains 15 people, training period is 7 to 10 days, and utilizes methods of lecturing, discussing, and field trip.

Based on the above mentioned results, Seoul Metropolitan Government succeeded in attracting the International Training Center of Metropolis, an international metropolitan association, in 2012, and held the opening ceremony and commemorative forum on 13th March 2014.
For more information, please visit:  http://hrd.seoul.go.kr/shrdc/ 

Masters degree program in developing countries

The University of Seoul operates Master of Urban Administration and Planning targeting officials in developing countries annually. Seoul develops human resources in urban administration through best practice administration case studies which include both practical skills and theoretical knowledge. City of Seoul has experienced rapid urban development and thus confronted numerous problems; and it targets to transfer acquired policy resolutions to developing countries. The program turned out 73 graduates over six annual programs, and has positioned as the nation's sole Master's degree in city administration in developing countries.(http://isus.uos.ac.kr/)

Other short-term training courses

In addition, specialized sectoral courses such as. railway officials training, water sector officials training, and health care officials have been operated for the purpose of developing experts in developing countries.

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