The Exploratory Study on the Comparison of International Situations and Green New Deal Policy Analysis for the Green Job Generation in Korea
Authors:   Asia-Europe Perspective Association, Kim Ho-Won , Lee Jong-Gu , Kim Joon-Seok 
Published: June 2018

This study has an objective, while the countries all over the world have strengthened the competition for the Green Growth and Green Job generation, on narrowing the gap with developed countries leveraging this new paradigm and suggesting the action plan for sustainable growth via domestic Green Job generation. This study was tried to explain about the international status of Green Job generation by types and sectors which is the current interest of global community, and to carry out the diversified analyses of how the current Green Jobs of the developed countries are formulated. Through the international status of Green Jobs, this study examines the progress of direction regarding Green Job generation by project types, which is the main policy project of current Korean Government as well as the key issue of our society, and also forecast the growth possibility systemically.
As the Green Investment was rapidly increased for alternative energy development and energy efficiency improvement in order to respond to the environmental issues, the number of employees engaging in Green Jobs of an environment-friendly sector is expected to increase strikingly in the future. However, the extensive change of the current industrial infrastructure is strongly required and it would be the essential factor for the sustainable development of Green Job generation to secure the reasonableness of wage level and the development opportunities. Also, even if Green Jobs have been developed in various ways according to the characteristics of the countries, the role of private enterprises as well as governmental authorities such as the central or local governments can be regarded as important in order to succeed in Green Job generation in Korea since they are working as one single economic principle piercing economy over a particular sector or regulation.
First, in case of private enterprises, they are the main body for most of the projects such as revitalization of the four main rivers, Green traffic network and so forth, other than public services or R&D sectors. For enterprises, Green New Deal project should be focused to find business opportunities for an environment sector and it is also required to develop environment-friendly new technology and method of construction including transition of wastes into energy and new renewable energy. Government should prepare incentive policies such as tax benefit, system improvement for stimulating Green Job generation of enterprises while keeping the policy consistency, and find some devices for enterprises who participate into Green New Deal project to earn benefit reducing a part of the social insurance as incentive for Green Job generation. In addition, financial support plans like a long-term low interest loan should be set up for the activation of investment to Green home or Green building.
Lastly, this study points out that we need more powerful, consistent, and stable policy and governmental leadership in order to realize Green Job vision and recommends several policies as follows; That is, government should execute monitering plan regarding the valuation of Green Job potential and development status and broaden investment and financial support on Green Job and clean development. Green job generation via Green Growth can broaden the scope when consumption is regarded as well as production according to the technological change. Expansion of Green consumption is recommended to be executed as a nationwide campaign since it can motivate the development of new technologies and development of equipment industries which will lead to increase employment in a production sector surpassing the size of employment induction by input-output effect.