Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo, front row second from right, poses with Vice Employment and Labor Minister Lee Sung-hee, front row second from left, at the group’s headquarters in Myeong-dong, Seoul, Friday. Courtesy of Hana Financial Group
By Lee Kyung-min
Hana Financial Group launched Hana Power-on Innovative Company Internship 2024, a job creation program for people with disabilities, women and young people, the group said Sunday.
The group added that its efforts to strengthen quantitative and qualitative support for job seekers will help 80 percent of the participants get jobs at 230 “social enterprises.”
These enterprises were established to address and solve unemployment issues and to seek profit while creating social value.
The group hosted an event Friday at its headquarters in Seoul to mark the program’s launch.
Among the more than 100 attendees were Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo, Vice Employment and Labor Minister Lee Sung-hee and the program participants.
This is the latest edition of the program launched in 2018.
Of the 230 interns who participated in Hana’s program, 73.5 percent landed jobs that offer permanent contracts. The group said both their employers and employees were highly satisfied.
This year, Hana will shoulder three months’ salaries for the participating interns.
It will provide an additional two months’ pay to those who become full-time workers.
All interns will be given online education vouchers of 100,000 won ($72) every month for the duration of the program.
Women with multicultural backgrounds will receive an additional stipend of 300,000 won per month and 100,000 won per month for family members of small business owners.
Ham said the country can foster a sustainable future when young people and social enterprises come together.
“Sustainability will be underpinned by mutual growth of young people seeking jobs to prepare for the future and socially innovative firms,” he said.
“Hana will take the lead to create a society that advances the dreams, happiness and future of everyone, as best encapsulated by our mantra – finance of everyone connected by Hana.”
