○ Air Liquide Advanced Materials Korea to provide chemical safety and vocational training to specialized high schools in Gyeonggi Province
– Part of agreement to boost investment concluded with Gyeonggi Province last October
– Knowledge about how to safely handle chemicals will be passed along to talented vocational high school students
○ Expected to foster job opportunities with foreign-invested firms for vocational high school students
– Introduction of advanced corporate culture and enhancement of safety awareness for chemistry department students

Air Liquide, a global, foreign-invested chemical company operating in Gyeonggi Province, supports the employment of vocational high school students in Gyeonggi Province and the enhancement of their safety management capabilities.

Gyeonggi Province announced on June 5 that Air Liquide Advanced Materials Korea, a Korean subsidiary of the French company Air Liquide, will provide “Air Liquide Vocational High School Chemical Safety and Vocational Training” to vocational high school students in Gyeonggi Province.

This training is being offered as part of the USD 28 million agreement for investment in Gyeonggi Province, which was signed by the province and company in Paris last October.

Under this agreement, Air Liquide Advanced Materials Korea pledged to invest USD 28 million in the Hwaseong Jangan Foreign Investment Zone for the commercialization of semiconductor processing gas, and to do its utmost to nurture talented young individuals in the region and develop the local community by passing along the 110-year-old firm’s chemical safety technology and safety management expertise to vocational high schools in the province.

Eight training sessions will be held, with four sessions each in the first half and second half of this year.

In the first half of the year, Air Liquide is offering training to juniors and seniors from the chemistry and chemical engineering departments of Suwon Samil Technical High School and Ansan Technical High School on how to safely handle chemicals used at manufacturing sites and how to use protective gear.

The first training session was held on June 5 at Suwon Samil Technical High School for 80 seniors from the chemical engineering department.

In the second half of the year, training will be provided to students in the electronics and electrical engineering departments. The selection of participating schools is currently underway.

Through these training sessions, Gyeonggi Province will be able to showcase the advantages of vocational high schools, which serve as a link between education and employment at foreign-invested companies, as well as the work culture and employment conditions of such enterprises. These sessions provide an invaluable opportunity to increase the employment of talented vocational high school students throughout the province by foreign-invested companies.

“These training sessions will be an opportunity for Air Liquide – an exemplary, advanced company in the area of safety compliance – to disseminate its operational know-how to manufacturing sites around Gyeonggi Province. The practical safety training and introduction to foreign corporate culture is expected to contribute to strengthening the capacity of the future workforce in the local community,” said the Innovative Industry Policy Bureau Director General Choi Kae-dong.