Trend Advanced economies compete aggressively for global talent with national recruitment strategies

Summary

The plan observes that advanced economies are announcing national strategies to attract talent and are rushing to introduce aggressive programmes to recruit people from around the world. As examples it cites China's Thousand Talents plan for recruiting outstanding foreign talent and its Ten Thousand Talents plan for developing young domestic talent. It also points to recent initiatives in Europe and Australia, such as Choose Europe and a Global Talent Attraction programme, aimed at recruiting scientists from the United States. These programmes offer long-term research support and settlement packages for relocating scientists. The plan presents this intensifying competition as the context in which Korea's own recruitment remains relatively weak.