"Utilizing Funds in Various Areas Such as Industrial Safety, Low Birthrate, and Worker Welfare"
A forum was held to share the contribution achievements of the 'Large and Small-Medium Enterprise Win-Win Cooperation Fund' system, first introduced in 2011, and to discuss the role and importance of the Win-Win Cooperation Fund.
The Foundation for Large and Small-Medium Enterprises and Agriculture-Fishery Cooperation held a forum and talk concert on the 4th at the Sapphire Hall of Lotte Hotel Seoul under the theme "A Happy Society Created by the Large and Small-Medium Enterprise Win-Win Cooperation Fund."
Han Jeong-hwa, Chairman of the Korea Youth Entrepreneurship Foundation and Special Chairman of the National Integration Committee for Large and Small-Medium Enterprise Win-Win Cooperation, delivered the keynote speech, and Kim Young-hwan, Secretary General of the Cooperation Foundation, gave the main presentation. Professor Emeritus Lim Chae-woon of Sogang University served as the moderator, with various panelists including experts, contributing companies, and small-medium enterprises participating in the discussion.
The discussion explored expanding the use of the Win-Win Cooperation Fund beyond supporting small-medium enterprise management to broader areas such as low birthrate, industrial safety, and AI and digital platform transformation.
Originally started as a measure to resolve polarization between large and small-medium enterprises, the Win-Win Cooperation Fund had been designated for use within 12 categories, including fair distribution of outcomes and wage gap reduction. However, as continuous demands for diversification of fund usage arose, its application has expanded to 14 categories, including venture fund investments and welfare improvement for small-medium enterprise workers.
In particular, in response to social changes such as the enforcement of the Serious Accident Punishment Act and the launch of the Low Birthrate and Aging Society Committee, contributions to the fund are trending toward supporting industrial safety and substitute workforce for low birthrate.
Since its inception, the Win-Win Cooperation Fund has grown from an initial contribution scale of about 100 billion KRW to a cumulative amount exceeding 2.7 trillion KRW. The number of contributing companies has expanded from 13 to 426, and 650,000 small-medium enterprises have benefited from the fund so far.
Kim Young-hwan, Secretary General of the Win-Win Cooperation Foundation, stated, "We hope that contributors to the Win-Win Cooperation Fund will include not only large manufacturing companies but all economically advantaged companies." He added, "The Win-Win Cooperation Foundation will do its best to discover new projects so that the fund can be utilized in various areas such as industrial safety, low birthrate, and worker welfare."
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