The government said on the 9th it will operate a "Korea-style canary dashboard" to reduce employment shocks from the transition to artificial intelligence (AI). The canary dashboard is an online system that shows in real time employment changes by industry and age for key occupations with high AI exposure, and it is used by Stanford University in the United States.
At the National Policy Coordination Meeting held on the day, the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) announced the "basic plan for employment stability in industrial transition," which contains these details. The aim is to prepare for changes in the job landscape as AI is used across industrial worksites. The basic plan was completed through an expert forum and labor-management on-site roundtables since Sept. last year.
Under the basic plan, the government will develop a Korea-style AI exposure index based on job information. It will also create a "canary dashboard" that updates this index in real time and issues early warnings for occupations with high AI exposure. To jointly examine how industrial policy affects employment, it will concurrently conduct preliminary employment impact assessments, starting in order with sectors with major transition effects.
To develop worker capabilities, it will provide practice-focused education and training to young people. For middle-aged and older people, it will expand the workplaces required to provide reemployment support services to guarantee opportunities to redesign careers. Currently, establishments required to offer reemployment support services are those with 1,000 or more employees, but this will be expanded to establishments with 300 or more employees by 2029. Through these measures, the government plans to support AI job training for more than 1 million people by 2030.
To ensure AI adoption leads to shorter working hours, it will develop a working-hours reduction model and enact the "support act for reducing actual working hours" to underpin it. To allow everyone to share in the fruits of innovation, it will additionally create the "public participation Public Growth Fund," in which the general public participates to share the gains of new industry growth, at a scale of 600 billion won. The labor ministry plans to present as tasks: ▲ social measures to offset income gaps and wage declines during transitions ▲ linking transition outcomes to opportunities for future generations ▲ new income security measures for all.