In summary, the National Skills Outlook found that Korean companies felt ‘problem-processing skills’ to be the most important skills and predicted that it would still be the case 10 years later.
For the service and manufacturing sectors, ‘problem-processing skills’ were considered to be the most important at 62.1% and 60.2%, respectively, followed by ‘social community ethics’ at 59.7% in the manufacturing sector and 57.2% in the services sector.
The study found that, for the automotive industry, not only were the robot density and routine task intensity index higher, but there was also a greater acceleration in skill polarization.
Such outlook results should be widely used not only in skills research but also for medium-term to long-term education and training policies. In addition, improving awareness, for instance, recognizing the value of basic vocational skills as constituting an important skill type as well as a core competency, is necessary.