A Study on the Development of ODA Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training in Korea - Focusing on Korea-German Cooperation Project -

Abstract

The cooperation between the two countries, which began in 1961 when the German government established the Korea-German Industrial School in Incheon, maintained a close cooperative relationship through mutual exchanges even after the support project ended in 1993. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, the German government unilaterally supported Korea, and the two countries maintained mutual exchanges from the 1990s. It has grown into a partnership to build a cooperative relationship by jointly carrying out ODA projects. Meanwhile, Korea, as a donor country, has been promoting vocational education and training support projects in various developing countries for over 40 years, starting with the Indonesian Vocational Training Center support project in 1986, but there is no case of long-term cooperation such as that between Korea and Germany. Through the study on the development of the Korea-Germany long-term cooperative relationship, we are able to understand the need to build a sustainable growth model based on the demand in the field of vocational education and training in the recipient countries. And we are able to understand that the experience of cooperation between Korea and Germany can be a practical model for Korea's TVET cooperation projects in the future.