'GDP 1.5%' 규모 산업부 예산, 일자리 사업에 투입<br /><br /> Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy... and affiliated institutions... plan to spend more than 23-and-a-half billion U.S. dollars to help create jobs.<br />It's a massive amount, equivalent to nearly one-and-a-half percent of the country's GDP, reflecting the government's resolve to help fix the nation's employment crisis.<br /> The ministry itself is planning to apportion half of its own budget of 6-point-2 billion dollars to job creation -- up from just 11 percent, currently.<br />It also plans to provide incentives for companies with excellent track records in job creation.<br />That's expected to create 35-thousand jobs over the next five years.<br />The rest of the huge sum is from other related institutions.<br />Their five-year plan is aimed at adding some 90-thousand jobs, mostly in the energy sector and the public sector. <br />
