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December 26 | Then President-elect Kim, Dae Jung proposed the introduction of a tripartite consultation mechanism to overcome the economic crisis. |
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January 15 | The First-Phase Tripartite Commission was established (Chairperson: Mr. Han, Kwang-ok). |
| February 6 | The Commission adopted the Social Agreement for Overcoming the Economic Crisis. 90 new items were agreed and adopted. | |
| March 28 | The Regulations on Tripartite Commission were enacted as the Presidential Decree. | |
| June 3 | The Second-Phase Tripartite Commission was launched (Chairperson: Mr. Kim, One-ki). |
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May 24 | The Act on Establishment and Operation of the Tripartite Commission (Legislation No. 5,990) was enacted and promulgated. |
| September 1 | The Third-Phase Tripartite Commission was inaugurated (Chairperson: Mr. Kim, Ho-jin). |
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August 8 | The Fourth Chairperson was inaugurated. (Chairperson: Mr. Chang, Young-chul) |
| October 23 | Agreement of Basic Principles on Reduction of Working Hours was reached |
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February 9 | Agreement on additional five-year postponement of the introduction of the multiple trade unions at enterprise level and no payment to the full-time union officials by employers was reached |
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July 22 | Agreement on Protection of Non-standard Workers, Employment Promotion of Young Generation and Privatization of Four Affiliated-companies of State Companies was reached |
| August 8 | The Fifth Chairperson was inauguated (Chairperson: Mr. Shin, Hong) |
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March 25 | The Sixth Chairperson Mr. Kim, Keum-soo was inaugurated. |
| June 25 | KTC became a member of International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions(IAESCSI). | |
| October 28 | KTC convened jointly a workship with ILO on Collective Bargaining Structure and Social Dialogue in Korea. |
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February 10 | Social Pact for Job Creation was reached |
| February 29 | Chairperson Kim, Keum-soo made an official visit to CES of France, SER of the Netherlands and ILO from 29th February through 9th March. The MOD with CES was reached. |
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| June 30 | Resolution on the Break-up of Korea Electric Power Corp.'s Distribution Business and Agreement on the Revitalization of Employee Stock Ownership Scheme were reached. | |
| September 15 | Agreement to Advance Employment Service was reached. | |
| December 12 | Chairperson Kim, Keum-soo made an official visit to India from 12th December through 20th of the month and met with representatives from labor, management and government. | |
| December 29 | Agreement to Introduce Earned Income Tax Credit was reached. |
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March 3 | Agreement on Vocational Training for SMEs and Non-regular Workers was reached. |
| May 6 | The Special Committee on Development of Manufacture was established |
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March 30 | - Agreement on promoting middle-aged and aged persons' participation in the labor market was reached. |
| - Agreement related to measures to activate the child care service for low income workers was reached. | ||
| May 23 | The Committee on Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance was established. | |
| June 23 | Mr. Cho, Sung-joon, a labor expert-turned law maker was inaugurated as the seventh Chairperson. | |
| October 27 | The Committee on Development of Industrial Relations was established. | |
| September 11 | Grand Tripartite Agreement on the Roadmap for Industrial Relations Reforms was reached. | |
| September 15 | - The KTC held the 2006 IAESCSI General Assembly at the Grand Hilton Seoul Hotel in Seoul. | |
| - About 130 delegates containing 32 member nations of the International Associations of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions(IAESCSI) such as China, France, Italy ,Netherlands, Brazil and Russia etc and Department of Economic and Social Affairs of United Nations(UN DESA) and International Labor Organization(ILO) participated in the Assembly and discussed with two main themes which read "New international resources for development and the fight against poverty" and "Creation of decent and productive jobs and its impact on the sustainable development". | ||
| November 17 | The Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) with the Council of Social and Economic Development of the Federative Republic of Brazil was reached. |
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January 26 | The Act on Establishment and Operation of the Korea Tripartite Commission was amended and promulgated with the Act on Establishment and Operation of the Economic and Social Development Commission. |
| April 27 | The Act on Establishment and Operation of the Economic and Social Development Commission was put into force. | |
| May 2 | The 1st Plenary Session of ESDC. | |
| June 21 | Chairman Mr. Cho, Sung-joon participated in the 10th IAESCSI International Meeting and proposed to host "Asia Social Dialogue Forum". | |
| July 2 | Mr. Choi, Byung-hoon was inaugurated as Vice-Chairman of ESDC. | |
| August 31 | Mr. Kim, Sung-jung was inaugurated as the 8th Chairman. | |
| September 10 | The visit of the Swedish parliament delegation. | |
| December 21 | The 3rd Plenary Session. |
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January 15 | The 10th Anniversary of ESDC. |
| July 3 | The visit of Chief of Socio-economic Governance and Management Brach of UN DESA. | |
| July 11 | Mr. Kim, Dae-mo was inaugurated as the 9th Chairman of ESDC. | |
| October 16 | The Asia Social Dialogue Forum 2008. | |
| October 29 | The 65th Plenary Session. | |
| December 2 | The Korean delegation comprising President of FKTU, Chairman of KEF, Vice-Chairman of KCCI and Chairman of ESDC visited to Ireland and made the MOU with National Economic Social Development Office of Ireland. |
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July 3 | Mr. Song, Young-jung was inaugurated as Vice-Chairman of ESDC |
| February 3 | The Emergency Meeting of Labor, Management, Civic groups and the Government to overcome the economic crisis was established. | |
| February 23 | The Agreement by Labor, Management, Civic groups and the Government to Overcome Economic Crisis was made. | |
| March 11 | The luncheon Meeting with 10 foreign correspondents was held in order to explain the Agreement. | |
| April 16 | The Commission hosted the breakfast meeting with the European Union Chamber of Commerce in Korea (EUCCK) at the Novotel Ambassdor Hotel. |
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May 07 |
The International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (IAESCSI) and ESDC jointly hosted the One-day Panel at the Conference Center of the COEX. |
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June 09 |
The 1st meeting of the Committee on Improvement for Working Hours and Wage systems was held |
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July 08 |
Chairman Kim, Dae-mo participated in the the 11th International Meeting of AICESIS in Budapest, Hungary from July 8th to August 13th. |
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July 10 |
The Commission became a member of the Board of AICESIS. |
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September 18 |
The Seminar to discuss about how to solve the multi unions and full time labor unions officials was held at the National Assembly. |
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October 29 |
- The Meeting of the tripartite leaders was held to discuss about multi unions and full time labor unions officials. |
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- The AICESIS Seminar entitled with “Roles of Economic and Social Councils for Measuring the Progress of Societies”was held at BEXCO, Busan. |
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November 18 |
The 2nd Meeting of the tripartite leaders was held to discuss about multi unions and full time labor unions officials. |
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December 3 |
The Commission(Mr. Park, Yeon-jeong, Director-General of the External Relations and Cooperation) participated in the AICESIS Board Meeting in Moscow, Russia from Dec. 3 to 4 2009. |
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March 08 | The 75th meeting of the Standing Committee was held. |
| March 17 | The 68th meeting of the 65th Plenary Committee was held. | |
| March 24 | The 1st meeting of the Committee on Employment Measures for Baby Boomers Age was held. | |
| April 01 | The 1st meeting of the Committee on Employment Improvement for Small and Medium Enterprises was held. | |
| April 07 | The Commission hosted the Forum to discuss roles to create jobs entitled “Roles of labor, management and the government for creating jobs” at the grand conference room of the Commission. | |
June 10 |
The 1st meeting of the Committee on Advancement of Labor and Management Culture. |
