Southern Women's Career Support Center to Open in Hwaseong Sports Park

Hwaseong City announced on the 12th that it will open the Southern Women's Career Support Center within Hwaseong Sports Park in February, in collaboration with the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the Ministry of Employment and Labor. The center has been providing job matching counseling, vocational training, and career counseling programs for women with interrupted careers since 2009.

The center will be equipped with conference rooms and counseling offices to provide efficient, high-quality employment services to women residing in the western and southern regions of Gyeonggi Province. It will create job opportunities for women whose employment has been interrupted due to household chores and childcare responsibilities.

The city will deploy two professional career designers to provide one-stop services from counseling to education and job placement. Additionally, the city plans to provide labor cost support for companies hiring women with interrupted careers and women from multicultural families, gender equality education to foster women-friendly corporate environments, corporate environment improvement support programs, and work-life balance welfare services to alleviate childcare burden.

A city official stated, "Through the opening of this center, we expect to provide necessary workforce to companies and customized job opportunities to job-seeking women, contributing significantly to the economic activities of the city."