Jungjingong, Recruiting 2,200 Companies for 'Online Export Platform Project' Participation

Support for Successful Transactions Between SMEs and Overseas Buyers

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Lee Young) and the Small and Medium Business Corporation (Chairman Kim Hak-do, hereinafter referred to as SBC) announced on the 17th that they are recruiting companies to participate in the '2023 Online Export Platform Project.'

The Online Export Platform Project is a program that supports the activation of online business-to-business (B2B) transactions for small and medium enterprises through the Online Export Platform (Gobiz Korea) website. It supports the entire online export process, including assisting domestic SMEs in listing on Gobiz Korea, online marketing, matching with overseas buyers, and post-management. Last year, SBC supported 2,471 companies through the Online Export Platform Project, achieving a total export amount of 150.66 million USD. This is the largest scale performance since the operation of Gobiz Korea.

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The Online Export Platform Project is specifically divided into the Gobiz export support project and post-management of purchase orders and transaction mediation. This year, SBC plans to support a total of about 2,200 companies, including 250 companies for the Gobiz export support project and 1,955 companies for post-management.

Applications can be submitted online through Gobiz Korea. This year, a self-diagnosis method was introduced to minimize the required documents. Kim Hak-do, Chairman of SBC, said, "Gobiz Korea is an online export platform operated since 1996, and it is Korea's representative B2B platform visited by more than 20 million buyers annually," adding, "We will continue to make efforts to expand the contact points between SMEs and overseas buyers through the Online Export Platform Project and support successful online exports."

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