Jungjingong, a Platform for Spreading K-Entrepreneurship

'2024 CEO Myeongpum Academy Integrated Training' Successfully Completed

The Small and Medium Business Corporation announced that on the 24th and 25th, it held the 2024 CEO Premium Academy Integrated Training under the theme "Korea's Innovative Growth, Again with K-Entrepreneurship" at the K-Entrepreneurship Center and other locations in Jinju-si, Gyeongnam.

This integrated training was organized to promote exchange and cooperation among companies participating in the CEO Premium Academy, which are individually operating training centers in six regions, and to spread K-Entrepreneurship nationwide. The event was attended by about 150 representatives of companies participating in the 2024 CEO Premium Academy and 4 representatives of graduated companies who completed the training.

Participants of the 2024 CEO Luxury Academy Integrated Training are taking a commemorative photo after their performance.

The main schedule included ▲a field experience at Seungsan Village, where the K-Entrepreneurship Center and the birthplaces of founders of LG and GS groups are located ▲a special lecture on K-Entrepreneurship ▲a policy field communication concert ▲networking ▲and tours of Jinju Fortress and the National Jinju Museum, famous landmarks of Jinju, Gyeongnam.

In particular, the special lecture on K-Entrepreneurship emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship by presenting four major principles that entrepreneurs should have: a sense of mission, confidence, a spirit of challenge, and a spirit of partnership, delivered by Son Gil-seung, Honorary Chairman of SK Telecom.

At the following policy field communication concert, under the theme "2024 Management Conditions for Small and Medium Venture Businesses and the Direction of SMBC's Business Promotion," Chairman Kang Seok-jin, along with executive panelists and representatives of participating companies, communicated and provided suggestions on key business areas such as policy funds, exports, and workforce.

Specifically, representatives of companies participating in the communication concert inquired about ▲the operation direction of SMBC policy funds and financial stabilization plans ▲local talent development measures ▲support for establishing overseas subsidiaries, and expressed opinions on ▲expanding policy funds for companies with more than seven years of operation ▲support measures for the introduction of foreign workers ▲and expanding the opening of SMBC training facilities.

Kang Seok-jin, Chairman of SMBC, said, “Fostering K-Entrepreneurship will be the first step toward innovative growth of small and medium venture businesses,” adding, “We will actively communicate and strive with small and medium venture businesses so that they can respond to changes in the future industrial structure and leap forward.”