Senior total care company Caredoc (CEO Jae-Byeong Park) announced on the 22nd that it has signed an industry-academic cooperation partnership with domestic health and nursing educational institutions with the goal of fostering foreign nursing assistants by attracting global international students.
This agreement was signed with Kyungdong University and Kyongdong University, respectively, and the two institutions will jointly develop and operate a dedicated curriculum for fostering global care talent. Caredoc explained that it selected the two universities as partners because they have practical education capabilities and a specialized curriculum in the health field.
Through this agreement, Caredoc and participating universities will select international students from Asian regions such as Vietnam, Myanmar, and Indonesia who wish to enter the domestic care industry, and support theoretical and practical training for obtaining nursing assistant qualifications. The main goal is to help them obtain full-time employment at domestic care facilities through employment-linked programs.
Caredoc also plans to provide Korean language education for smooth on-site communication, and encourage the simultaneous acquisition of nursing assistant qualifications and TOPIK (Test of Proficiency in Korean) Level 2 or higher. Through this, the strategy is to stably supply specialized foreign manpower suitable for the domestic nursing industry.
This industry-academia cooperation was promoted as a measure to diversify supply by attracting overseas talent amid the recent worsening shortage of domestic care workers.
Kyungdong University Vice President for Industry-Academic Cooperation Lee Young-hoon said, “By combining our school’s educational infrastructure with Caredoc’s practical experience, we have established a model for fostering healthcare talent that can lead to practical employment.”
Caredoc CEO Jae-Byeong Park said, “In response to the imbalance in the supply and demand of domestic care workers, we are continuously expanding our global industry-academia cooperation network,” and “We will continue to contribute to the structural improvement of the domestic care industry based on a high-quality customized care system.”
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