Si Seok-jung, Chairman of Gyeonggi Shinbo, Makes First On-Site Visit After Inauguration: "We Will Be Your Business Success Partner"

Si Seok-jung, Chairman of the Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation, is visiting a traditional market and talking with merchants. Photo by Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Since his inauguration, Chairman Si Seok-jung of the Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation visited a semiconductor company in Ansan and the traditional market in Gapyeong as his first on-site management activities.

Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation announced on the 24th that Chairman Si held an inauguration ceremony on the 20th and visited a semiconductor manufacturing SME in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, and Cheongpyeong Yeoul Market, a traditional market in Gapyeong, to listen to on-site difficulties.

At the inauguration ceremony earlier that day, Chairman Si said, "In the situation where the difficulties of SMEs and small business owners in the province are increasing due to the unprecedented complex crisis, I feel both honor and responsibility in taking on the important role as chairman of Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation, which is responsible for financial stability in Gyeonggi Province."

He continued, "I promise to do my best to redefine the role and functions of Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation so that it can leap forward as a true business success partner for the residents and provide success and opportunities to the residents."

Chairman Si emphasized three management philosophies?resident-centered, field-centered, and success and opportunity?to establish Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation as a business success partner leading the center of change and the opportunity Gyeonggi.

Furthermore, based on these management philosophies, he presented management goals such as strengthening consulting-centered customized guarantees, expanding guarantee funds to overcome the livelihood economy crisis, and establishing a resident-centered regional guarantee system through town hall meetings.

Born in 1961, Chairman Si graduated from Seodaejeon High School and Konkuk University. After joining the Small and Medium Business Bank, the predecessor of IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, he served as labor union chairman, head of corporate customer department, head of Incheon regional headquarters, marketing group leader (vice president), and CEO of IBK Asset Management. Recognized for his outstanding expertise and capabilities cultivated over more than 30 years in the policy finance field, he was appointed as the 16th chairman of Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation on the 19th.

Meanwhile, labor union executives, including Kim Jong-woo, head of the Gyeonggi Credit Guarantee Foundation labor union branch, also attended the inauguration ceremony that day.

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