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provided by the MND into specialization-tailored courses, 45) and expanded the course to meet

the beneficiaries’ needs.
To help medium-term servicemembers with f ive or more years in service decide their path and
direction after service, the MND included career design in refresher training courses to help

them make career choices early on, and take the career course and the basic course one or two
years before their discharge. Since 2017, to help medium-term servicemembers find employment
opportunities, the MND granted transition periods of one to three months depending on each

servicemember’s years in service. However, in response to feedback in which the period of one
to three months is not suff icient for practical purposes, the MND plans to extend the transition
period to between three and seven months.

Long-term servicemembers with 10 years or more in service take the career course two or
three years before the beginning of their transition periods, and complete the basic course at
the same time as the transition course. The transition periods range from 10 to 12 months
depending on their years in service. In addition, the MND plans to foster the conditions that

will help medium-/long-term servicemembers participate in employment courses, job events,
recruitment events for overseas job opportunities, job academies, and other job-searching

activities during their service. In 2019, the MND is considering the adoption of the “Transition
Readiness Report Program,” in which unit commanders should verify the transition readiness
of soon-to-be-discharged servicemembers before their transition periods or six months before
their discharge.
Chapter 6

| Job Standardization Based on NCS 46) | More and more public institutions and private
enterprises have adopted competency-centered recruitment based on the National Competency

Standards (NCS). Educational institutions are also reorganizing their curricula with NCS-based
courses. Even though most of the jobs performed in the military are similar or identical to those
covered by the NCS, the former has yet to be standardized. This issue caused diff iculties to

discharged servicemembers when they try to have their military career recognized outside the

45) An education course aimed at helping servicemembers who completed the basic course and consulting
improve their professional capabilities for employment; implemented in collaboration among the ROK Armed
Forces, businesses, and organizations
46) NCS are the national standards that systematize and standardize the knowledge, skills, qualities, and other
elements required for various jobs performed at industrial sites in different sectors at different levels.

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