During the era of high price of oil and mineral, stable security of energy and mineral resources is very important for Korea, which imports most energy and mineral resources from foreign country. However, domestic human resources in the international ...
During the era of high price of oil and mineral, stable security of energy and mineral resources is very important for Korea, which imports most energy and mineral resources from foreign country. However, domestic human resources in the international energymineral resource development are significantly insufficient to meet the demand because of the least investment in the education and R&D for the past 20 years. Thus, the government made short-, midterm-, and long-term plans for human resources cultivation in oil & mineral development through several meetings of the advisory council on energy. In this study, the status of the Academy of resource development, which is already operated for cultivating human resources in oil and mineral development, is examined. In addition, we present the detailed plan for launching the specialized university for resource development and suggest the establishment of the special graduate program for resource development and the infrastructure for cultivating human resources in oil and mineral development.