The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends over 4 billion won annually to staff for overseas training with over 4 billion won in national funds to nurture diplomatic talent, but in the past three years, there have been four cases of employees resigning without fulfilling mandatory service after training, raising criticism that they only pocketed training benefits with taxpayers' money. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sends about 35 employees annually for overseas training to the US, UK, China, Japan, and other countries, and the annual budget for tuition, living expenses, and medical insurance for these employees amounts to 4.3 billion ~ 4.7 billion KRW per year . It is reportedly the same. However, contrary to the original intent of nurturing diplomatic talent, cases of failure to fulfill mandatory service duties after completing training have been recurring. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that training fees already paid in cases of failure to fulfill mandatory service duties The funds are recovered proportionally based on the remaining mandatory service period, and in the past three years, there have been four cases where training expenses were recovered for failing to fulfill mandatory duties, totaling 334.1 million won. In fact, two of the retirees retired less than a month after completing their training: one foreign official who trained for about two years in the US and UK retired the day after the training, and another senior foreign official who trained for about a year in the US also retired just 26 days after the training ended. To nurture talent who benefits the national interest, taxpayers' money was spent on overseas training, but in reality, they only built their personal careers and ignored mandatory service.
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