Issue The plan seeks an integrated national talent system to enter the IMD brain-drain top 20 and recruit 2,000 top researchers

Summary

The plan proposes a national system for securing and managing talent that links domestic training, recruitment from abroad and prevention of outflow. Its headline targets are to lift Korea into the top 20 of the IMD brain drain index, where it ranked 30th in 2024, and to recruit 2,000 outstanding people in AI, advanced technology and industry. The plan also aims to train young talent in advanced industries, the humanities and basic sciences while reforming rules so that firms can obtain needed skills quickly. For foreign talent it promises better conditions for visas, settlement and research, and packaged recruitment programmes under a single brand to raise national attractiveness. It further plans a national talent map database and a public and private talent policy control tower, all stated as government goals.