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counseling, technology, and funds to teams with excellent items to help them achieve
actual commercialization. This policy of fostering startup talents continues to
contribute to developing potential startup capabilities of young servicemembers and
making military service more productive.

Employment Support for The MND is improving its tailored support for
Medium-and Long-Term mid-to long-term servicemembers who have ser-
Servicemembers ved for five years or more. Improvements are
made in the education system for career change
and the duration of support for career change is being expanded. Starting in 2019, the
scope of personnel entitled to receive education on military service planning
education was extended beyond captains and sergeants first class to cover second
lieutenants and staff sergeants to help servicemembers understand the overall lives
of military personnel and design their own initiative-driven military careers.
Since 2020, the MND has operated the "tailored basic education for career change"
course for each future career goal of cadres preparing for discharge to help them
prepare for their career change systematically and reliably, and has opened and
operated additional intensive courses for applicants who have completed basic
education.
On the other hand, since 2017, to help medium-term servicemembers find
employment opportunities, the MND has granted transition periods of one to three
months depending on each servicemember’s number of years in service and has
allowed all medium-term servicemembers to prepare for career change early through

mandatory career education 2 years prior to their discharge.
Long-term servicemembers who have served for 10 years or more are provided
with career planning education during service and career education two years prior
to discharge. They are also offered with basic education and a variety of tailored
professional education during a 10- to 12-month period of support for career change,
thus giving them sufficient opportunities to get a job based on enhanced employment
competencies.

Securing Jobs for Retiring In conjunction with the government’s job policy,
Servicemembers the MND is seeking to increase jobs in the
defense domain by finding employment posi-
tions in and out of the military and developing jobs for servicemembers nearing their
discharge to utilize their occupational capabilities and military career.
First, under Defense Reform 2.0, the MND continues to find and secure positions

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