Korean Horse Association produces best practices for the horse industry's national human resource development consortium

Sep 12, 2024

 Korean Horse Association produces best practices for the horse industry's national human resource development consortium
Winning the 2024 National Human Resource Development Consortium Best Practices Competition Encouragement Award. Courtesy of the Korea Racing Authority
The Korea Racing Authority (Chairman Jung Ki-hwan) presented the award for encouraging graduates at the '2024 National Human Resource Development Consortium Best of Champion Day' held at Alpensia Resort in Pyeongchang on the 5th.

As the only excellent case of a public company selected by competing with leading domestic conglomerates such as Samsung SDI and SKT, the Korea Racing Authority has been providing education such as rehabilitation horseback riding, horse training, and horse racing management to more than 400 trainees every year since 2016 after being certified as a national human resource development consortium project.

Kim Ji-hye of Goheung Happy Horsehouse in South Jeolla Province, who was honored this time, said, `I spent a lot of time agonizing over how to differentiate myself from other horse riding courses and my limitations as a non-majors""Then, I was able to find a way to meet the diverse needs of my customers when I came across the Korea Racing Authority's National Human Resource Development Consortium project." he said.

Through the Korean Horse Association's horse industry job training, it was possible to conceive a non-riding program in addition to horseback riding while interacting with examples of advanced countries abroad, horse industry trends and trends, and the representative content of the Happy Horse Fair was created. As they were able to directly experience scientific upcycling through the process of turning horse poop into paper, the customer base expanded from existing infants to elementary, middle and high school students.

Although it was not easy to enforce during the consortium training period, CEO Kim Ji-hye, who says that the horse industry consortium education of the horse industry has been a strong supporter in systematically managing the overall management, including horse race management and program promotion, will continue to spread happy 'horse culture' to customers ranging from children to adults.

Bang Se-kwon, vice chairman of the Korean Horse Association and the head of the Horse Industry Headquarters, said, `It is even more meaningful because it is the award of a graduate who actively participated in the training of the Horse Industry National Human Resource Development Consortium.' and added, `We will continue to make efforts to cultivate professional manpower and create jobs in the horse industry by listening to the voices of the field in the future.'





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