Jeju Mirae High School to Connect Content Talent from Learning to Jobs in Jeju

【Financial News Jeju = Jung Yong-bok】 A new education and employment system will be established to help students in the content programs at Jeju Mirae High School, which opens next year, apply the skills they learn at school to corporate field experience and local employment.
According to the Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Office of Education on the 12th, the office and the Jeju Content Promotion Institute signed an agreement at the office’s situation room on the 10th to develop locally based talent in the content sector and support employment for high school graduates.
At the center of the agreement is Jeju Mirae High School, which will open on March 1, 2027. The initiative will provide students in related programs, including the Department of Digital and Tourism Content, with job training and practical opportunities required by the content industry. It will also connect them to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in Jeju after graduation.
The two organizations will first jointly develop customized curricula and job-training programs for the content sector. Rather than having schools teach fixed subjects and companies provide job training afterward, the plan aims to reflect industry technologies and workforce needs from the education stage onward.
The Jeju Content Promotion Institute will focus on connecting industry with schools. It plans to use its human and physical infrastructure—including content specialists, facilities and equipment—in school education, while linking its network of companies in Jeju to students’ career paths and employment opportunities.
Students will gain exposure to the industry through company visits and lectures by content experts, then expand their job experience through field training and internships. Cooperation will also cover entrepreneurship education that uses students’ content planning and production skills.
The agreement also signifies that preparations for Jeju Mirae High School have expanded beyond securing school facilities and teachers to building ties with local industries and employment networks.
A key measure of vocational high school education is how effectively students move into jobs in their actual fields after enrollment. If the skills taught at school differ from the duties companies require, graduates must undergo additional training after being hired, while companies must bear the cost of developing talent.
The need for industry connections is even greater in the content sector, where change is rapid. As the technologies and platforms used in video, design and digital content production evolve quickly, curricula must be updated to narrow the gap with industry changes.
The Jeju Content Promotion Institute is also making it a major priority this year to secure and retain talent for the local content industry. It is operating programs that support employment retention and talent development for companies in the tourism-content sector, working to connect local companies’ workforce needs with jobs for young people.
By expanding its talent-development efforts to include students at Jeju Mirae High School, the institute aims to build a workforce pipeline in which students are educated at the high school level, gain field experience at local content companies and then enter employment, according to its cooperation plan.
The results will depend less on the agreement itself than on how concretely it is turned into programs that students can experience. The number of courses involving industry, the scale of company visits and field training, the companies participating in internships, and graduates’ employment rate in the content sector could serve as indicators of the partnership’s actual impact. Continued participation by companies and working conditions that allow students to remain in Jeju after finding jobs are also challenges that must be addressed.
Kang Min-bu, president of the Jeju Content Promotion Institute, said, "For Jeju’s content industry to grow, it is important to create a virtuous cycle in which practical talent needed in the field learns, finds employment and settles in the region. We will connect the institute’s specialists, facilities and corporate network with school education to help students grow into talent for Jeju’s content industry."


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