Continuous and ample training opportunities are provided by the Korea Press Foundation and those who seek to participate in trainings are usually given the chance to do so. The Korean Journalists Survey 2019 showed that the opportunity to develop expertise was the fourth most satisfactory factor in the journalists’ job, with an average score of 2.85 (out of five). 26.9 per cent of the respondents were satisfied by these opportunities, a jump from 18.5 per cent in 2017 (Korea Press Foundation, 2017, 2019c).
There’s a consensus that the professional training programmes journalists participated in were generally useful. When asked to score the usefulness of the training programmes they completed, the journalists rated study abroad or graduate programmes abroad to be the most useful at 4.50, and rated Kore press foundation training at 4.17. Internal training offered at the workplace were rated as the least useful among different types of training programmes (3.60) but still proved to be fairly useful. There’s a general demand for training in digital journalism and Big Data analysis, which suggests that the training programmes currently offered have scope to improve.
