The Korea International Trade Association (KITA, Chairman Jin-sik Yoon) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (Minister Deok-geun Ahn) held the 18th graduation ceremony and 19th inauguration ceremony for the 'Regional Specialization Youth Trade Expert Training Course (GTEP)' at COEX in Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 28th.
The event was attended by approximately 350 people, including Chairman Jin-sik Yoon of the Korea International Trade Association, Director-General of the Trade Negotiation Headquarters of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy In-gyo Jeong, GTEP business unit directors and supervising professors from 20 universities across the country, and participating students.
GTEP has been operated since 2007 by the Trade Association and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy with the goal of training trade experts who can be immediately deployed to the export field, and 20 universities across the country are participating. Including the 730 graduates of the 18th class, it has produced approximately 12,000 trade experts to date.
The 18th batch of graduates have completed a total of 480 hours of training, including customized education on local languages, market characteristics, trade practices, and field training, focusing on 6 specialized regions including Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and India over the past 15 months. In addition, they have supported overseas field marketing and online mall entry of 992 small and medium-sized enterprises in industry-academia cooperation relationships, contributing to achieving export performance of 22.4 million dollars. The cumulative export performance achieved by small and medium-sized enterprises through marketing support from graduates over the past 18 years has been tallied at 125 million dollars.
Chairman Jin-sik Yoon of the Korea International Trade Association encouraged the graduates and emphasized that “GTEP is a representative project that fosters talent through collaboration between universities, companies, and the government while supporting exports of small and medium-sized enterprises,” adding that “We will continue to develop it so that it can become a program to foster trade talent with digital expertise in line with recent trends.”
Meanwhile, the graduation and inauguration ceremonies on this day were live streamed through the Trade Association YouTube channel (KITA TV) to reflect the high interest of college students in GTEP, and 10 university professors and other related individuals who contributed to the training of trade personnel were awarded commendations by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy.
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