Launch of Collaboration Network for Mid-sized Companies and Investment Institutions

Launch of the 'Mid-sized Enterprise Investment Leaders Forum'

A private mid-sized company and investment institution cooperation network aimed at creating a healthy investment ecosystem has been launched. The Korea Federation of Mid-sized Enterprises announced on the 7th that it held the launch ceremony of the 'Mid-sized Enterprise Investment Leaders Forum' jointly with the accounting firm Samil PwC.

The Mid-sized Enterprise Investment Leaders Forum is a networking and educational program designed to discover new growth engines for mid-sized companies, strengthen investment and M&A capabilities in technological innovation, and build a healthy investment ecosystem led by the private sector.

(From the front row, left) Min Jun-seon, Vice President of Deal Division at Samil PwC; Park Dae-jun, Head of Deal Division at Samil PwC; Jang Young-jin, 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy; Lee Ho-jun, Executive Vice Chairman of the Korea Federation of Medium-sized Enterprises; Choi Yoon-sik, Director of Asia Future Talent Institute; and Choi Hee-moon, Executive Director of the Korea Federation of Medium-sized Enterprises, are taking a commemorative photo with participants of the Medium-sized Enterprise Investment Leaders Forum.

The forum includes about 30 executives and employees from mid-sized companies such as Sempio Foods, Dain Precision, Heerim Architects & Planners, Dongshin Toolpia, YG-One, Taeyang Metal Industry, DH Lighting, and KPF, as well as about 10 representatives and executives from well-known domestic and international investment institutions. The forum will be held every Wednesday or Thursday until November 22, consisting of a 10-week course of expert lectures and workshops.

Lee Hojun, the full-time vice chairman of the Korea Federation of Mid-sized Enterprises, said, "The smooth circulation of a healthy investment ecosystem is a fundamental requirement that drives companies' challenges and the transition to a new growth paradigm," adding, "By maximizing the dynamism across industries, we will strengthen the substance of the network and programs so that active innovative investments by mid-sized companies, which will lead a new economic leap, can continuously expand, and we will also do our best to create changes in the related policy environment."