Hyundai Green Food holds job fair for army culinary troops leaving service

Hyundai Green Food announced it will hold a recruitment fair for army culinary specialists over three days — Wednesday, Thursday and Oct. 16 — in partnership with the Army Personnel Command.

The first two sessions will take place at the Hyundai Department Store Group Human Resources Development Institute in Gangdong-gu, Seoul, while the Oct. 16 session will be held at The Hyundai Daegu. About 300 army soldiers with culinary specialties who are preparing to leave service are expected to attend. The sessions will introduce Hyundai Green Food's main business divisions and job functions and walk participants through the hiring process.

One-on-one interviews that can lead directly to job offers will also be held. Hyundai Green Food staff will serve as interviewers and select candidates suited for culinary roles, including positions as cooks in institutional catering and restaurant settings. The company plans to hire more than 100 people through the fair.

New hires will then go through Green Academy, an onboarding training program offering practical instruction in hygiene and safety management, ingredient preparation, menu cooking and business etiquette.

Hyundai Green Food has run employment and recruitment support programs for army culinary troops every year since 2019, now in its eighth consecutive year. The company has hired about 600 culinary soldiers to date and received a commendation plaque from the Ministry of National Defense in 2023 for its contributions to hiring military personnel.

The company has also been expanding its hiring pipeline to include students from vocational high schools. Since 2024, it has participated in a work-linked vocational training program run jointly by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Employment and Labor, connecting practical instruction with job placement. It was the first company in the institutional catering industry to be designated as a vocational training institution under the program.

"We will support soldiers in putting the valuable experience and aptitude they built in the military to use, and in continuing to develop their expertise after joining us," a Hyundai Green Food official said.