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Chapter Four - Right People
Although young people have better formal education, they
lack development opportunities in their career. The reason
for this is that many employers are old-fashioned and
cannot readily accommodate young people’s aspirations,
expectations or even global views which are rather
different from their predecessors.
In fact, young people in the new generations, especially
women, should be able to play a more important role in
our development as a technology hub.
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South Korea: More female participation =
more innovation
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO), women applying for international patents increased
from 12% of the total in the 1990s to 31% in 2017. In South
Korea, a male-dominated country, within half of the patent
application teams, there is at least one female inventor.
This ratio is the highest among the 152 member countries.
This is in line with South Korea’s rising reputation in the
field of innovation in recent years. The country is among
