DAEJEON — Daejeon Urban Corporation said on Sept. 16 that it received the Minister of Employment and Labor's award in the fair hiring category at the 2026 National Contribution Awards. The corporation was recognized for standardizing its recruitment procedures and continuously improving a fair hiring system centered on job competency.
The corporation has standardized its hiring procedures based on the findings of a 2024 consultation by the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, and has since operated recruitment rules designed to improve fairness and objectivity.
In particular, when current employees apply for open recruitment, the interview panel is composed entirely of outside members, and the corporation has expanded the participation of external experts in general hiring as well. It also strengthened its job-competency-based hiring system by introducing artificial intelligence aptitude tests for the youth internship track and conducting cross-verification between the human resources department and the relevant job departments.
The corporation has also maintained blind hiring. In application reviews and interview evaluations, it manages the process so that factors unrelated to the job — such as hometown, education, family relations, gender and age — do not influence assessments.
The corporation also pays 30,000 to 50,000 won in interview expenses to final-round candidates to ease the burden on job seekers, and expanded its experience-based youth internship program to 40 people in 2025 from 32 in 2024, broadening opportunities for young people to gain work experience. It also expanded socially equitable employment, including hiring six athletes with severe disabilities.
As a result of these efforts, the corporation has earned Korea Management Registrar (KMR)'s certification as an outstanding fair-hiring institution for three consecutive years. It also drew recognition for transparent hiring procedures, recording zero cases of hiring misconduct while hiring a total of 57 people in 2025.
"We have worked to create a hiring environment where anyone can compete fairly based on ability and job competency," said Chung Kook-young, president of Daejeon Urban Corporation.
