SK Group launched a job consulting program for the young adults on Thursday in its latest appeasement gesture after its head received a special pardon from the government earlier this year.
  

South Korea's No. 3 conglomerate said it commenced the program and will pick the first batch of 1,000 youths to help them develop their careers and find jobs, adding they will be provided with internship programs in the group's subcontract firms.
  

The selected candidates will join the program starting in January.
  

Around 300 small and medium-sized firms from various industrial segments from semiconductors to constructions have offered to provide internship programs.
  

Participants who finish SK Group's career courses will join three-month internship programs at such companies.
  

The subcontractors will decide whether to hire participants as full-time employees after the internship.
  

They will be provided with a monthly pay of 500,000 won ($441) during the education period and 1.5 million won over the internship months, SK Group said.
  

SK Group has been actively responding to government calls to create more jobs and beef up spending, especially as Chairman Chey Tae-won was freed on Aug. 14 in a special presidential pardon, after serving a prison sentence since 2013 for embezzlement. (Yonhap)