This paper review the labor market changes since the economic crisis and the recent changes in training systems in foreign countries and suggest the need of transforming the current Korean training systems.
Labor mobility has been increased since the economic crisis. As more workers change their jobs, many of them experience career changes associated with industrial and occupational changes. The more workers change employers, the less employers invest training due to the losses of training investment. Thus the change of labor market lays the responsibility to sustain and increase their employability on the workers.
The current Korean training system is geared less at the employee's voluntary learning. The present Job Skill Development Program under employment insurance system mainly assists to employer initiative training. So the assistance to employee's voluntary learning is insufficient.
The changing labor market necessitates employee's voluntary learning system. This paper recommends the introduction of paid learning leave support system with a view to overcoming the major barriers of self-directed learning, such as time and financial constraints.