A working space for international IT engineer at FTP Complex in Da Nang. F-Soft Da Nang company began IT human resource training focusing on exports to Japan and Korea markets. — VNS Photo Cong Thanh

FPT Software Da Nang, a member of FPT Group, began training software engineers for the Japanese and South Korean markets by signing a human resource training programme with the Da Nang-based Dong A University.

Chairman of F-Soft Da Nang, Nguyen Tuan Phuong, said the programme was part of the company’s 10,000-Bridge Software Engineers (BrSE) plan that was launched from 2014 to promote deeper access into the two key markets.

He said the first course, which will open later this year, aims to provide Japanese and Korean language IT engineers as Japan is a key traditional export destination of F-Soft Da Nang with 70 per cent of software export turnover, while South Korea and the US is an emerging market for the firm.

He said F-Soft Da Nang has employed 3,200 Vietnamese IT engineers, and more than 2,000 Japanese and Vietnamese employees working for F-Soft Japan in Japan.

Phuong said success in Japan and South Korea would help the company expand its exports to the United Arab Emirates, Europe and the US.

Dong A University is the only educational centre training Korean and Japanese language IT engineers in central Viet Nam.

More than 2,000 students have been training in Japanese and Korean in the IT, nursing, automobile, food and tourism industries.

F-Soft alone earned US$53.4 million, of which 96 per cent was from software exports, in 2020.

The software exporter has poured a $23 million investment in the 5.9ha FPT Complex for the first phase.

Da Nang’s IT industry created revenue of $1.3 billion, half of which in software development, offering 40,000 jobs in 2020. — VNS