About 30 Companies to Be Selected Separately for Export Voucher Support
The Small Enterprise and Market Service (SEMAS) announced on the 18th that it is recruiting small business owners to participate in the "2025 Second Half Small Business Capacity Building Program (Export Consulting)."
The Small Business Capacity Building Program supports small businesses seeking to enter overseas markets by providing expert consulting and vouchers, aiming to strengthen their export capabilities and help them develop new overseas sales channels. The goal is to proactively respond to global trade environment changes, such as the recent high tariff measures imposed by the United States on Korea, and to support the stable overseas expansion of small businesses.
Through this program, SEMAS plans to offer effective solutions for difficulties small businesses face in the export process and provide up to 10 consulting sessions to more than 130 companies. The areas of consulting support include: response to U.S. tariffs; overseas market research and marketing; strengthening product competitiveness; and export documentation services. Support will be tailored to the specific circumstances of each small business.
Any small business owner with export experience is eligible to apply. In addition, those with export records to the United States or whose export amount in the previous year was less than USD 100,000 can receive a 10% exemption from self-payment.
Export vouchers will be provided to about 30 companies selected from among those that have received export consulting, offering additional support of up to KRW 2 million per company without self-payment. The vouchers can be freely used for overseas certification, logistics cost support, development of export marketing content, and entry and promotion on global platforms.
Applications for the Small Business Capacity Building Program are open until 18:00 on August 6 through the "Small Business 24" website. After a screening process, successful applicants will be selected. The selected participants will then receive intensive support, including a preliminary assessment by an export specialist agency.
Park Sunghyo, Chairman of SEMAS, stated, "As the export risks faced by small businesses are increasing amid the rapidly changing global trade environment, including the expansion of high tariffs by the United States, there is a pressing need for a customized consulting system that can offer practical solutions. We hope that this export consulting program will help companies seeking to export enter overseas markets stably, and ultimately serve as an opportunity for them to grow into globally competitive enterprises."
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