The award was presented by The Ministry of Employment and Labor on Sept. 11 at a human-resources development conference at COEX Magok in Seoul, cited as a standout case under a government program that endorses corporate qualifications.
The company has already been awarded with government validation for in-house courses AI Literacy and AI Bootcamp in January.
AI Literacy targets basic AI skills for all staff regardless of role, covering document drafting, data structuring, spreadsheet use and elementary programming.
AI Bootcamp trains specialists who can build custom AI agents that draw on internal data to carry out tasks on their own, producing experts ready for immediate deployment on the factory floor.
The company has groomed the system to keep results fair and reliable since AI itsefl runs the training and assessment.
It has minimized bias in exam questions and grading and left final review to human evaluators based on the transparency and safety principles of the AI Basic Act that took effect in January.
"This award recognizes the credibility and field value of the AI-competency certification platform SK AX built ahead of the curve," said Kim Min-hwan, who leads the company's HR transformation efforts.
"We will keep developing it into a certification system that is trusted and used across industry, not just one that supports our own employees' growth."
AJP Takeaways
- SK AX, the IT arm of South Korea's SK Group, won a minister's award from the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Sept. 11 for an in-house generative-AI training and certification program.
- The company's AI Literacy and AI Bootcamp courses became the first AI-competency credentials in South Korea to earn government recognition, awarded in January under the labor ministry's corporate-qualification endorsement program.
- SK AX plans to extend the certification system to outside companies and educational institutions, and reflected the AI Basic Act's transparency and safety principles by keeping human evaluators in charge of final results.
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