The Small and Medium Business Administration is recruiting young people who will be working overseas to help with small business firms' exports.

The state-run agency said that it will recruit one thousand "overseas export personnel" this year, up from one hundred-10 last year.

After six weeks of training, they will be dispatched to overseas trade centers of the Korea Trade-Investment Agency and branches of small and medium-sized companies in some 60 countries, including China, Russia and Central and South American nations.

About five hundred of them will be dispatched in the first half of the year, with the others to be sent in the second half.

They will engage in overseas market analysis and buyer consultation as well as opening up markets for the nation's small- and medium-businesses.

The government is hoping that the program will help ease the severe unemployment situation among young people.