In this paper, the role of the railroad industry and the importance of this country was first identified. Railroad industry is recognized as an integrated industry with enormous spreading effects as the industry's characteristics include those of civil engineering industry and plant industry at the same time.
In addition, as the rail industry is a sub-field of construction industry, the success of overseas rail projects is closely related to economic prospects and success of overall overseas construction projects. The success of overseas rail projects also depends on level of own technology and the use of expertise, based on former cases of overseas construction projects.
This report compares cases of comprehensive human resource training system of government departments, industrial field, scholar field, research institute, etc, in terms of cultivating global railway professionals needed to enter into overseas rail market, in the long term. This is to suggest the plan for establishment of organized human resource cultivation system, which is need for ultimate goal of successful participation in overseas rail projects.
I hope that this report would be a cornerstone for Korean rail companies to actively enter global rail market, by contributing to establish systematic method for cultivating global professionals in rail industry.