Twenty Years of Action Learning

The number of organizations employing action learning programs is rapidly increasing in South Korea. LG Electronics implemented an action learning program titled, “Talent Development Program for Executives,” which was created to develop 30 to 40 managers to become executives within the company. Two decades later, the action learning program is still in use. Action learning in South Korea has been used as a tool for talent development in corporate settings for the past decade. Since 2002, Hyundai Oilbank and Daelim Industrial have developed new ways to use action learning for organization development with the purpose of management innovation and the establishment of a learning organization.