By Lee Hyo-sik
Staff reporter
The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) will hire qualified foreign nationals as heads of its overseas branch offices as part of its efforts to recruit more capable tourism marketing experts.
KTO, a promoter of Korea’s tourism abroad, currently operates 27 branches in 15 countries, which are all headed by its personnel. This time, it will open the manager’s position in its Moscow and Frankfurt offices to both Koreans and non-Koreans.
“To bring the winds of change to our organization and secure highly-qualified and experienced tourism marketing experts, we have decided to recruit non-KTO personnel to head two of our overseas offices. We plan to expand this open recruitment to other branch offices in the future,” a KTO spokesman said. He expects a number of Russians and Germans specializing in the tourism sector there to apply for the positions.
Those who are hired will serve in the post for two years. After that, their contract can be renewed every year in accordance with their performance.
Individuals interested in the positions should fill out an application form and mail it to KTO’s human resources department along with other required documents from July 20 through Aug. 12.
For further inquiries, please contact the human resources department at 02-7299-282, 290.