Jinju City, Spreading K-Entrepreneurship ... Agreement to Revitalize Economic Education

Establishment of the National Museum of Entrepreneurship in Korea

Joint Collaboration with the Economic Education Organizations Council

Jinju City in Gyeongnam announced on the 26th that it signed a business agreement with the Economic Education Organizations Council, a corporation, at the Seoul Economic Education Organizations Council office to promote the global spread of K-Entrepreneurship and activate economic education.

This agreement was made with the purpose of enhancing exchange and cooperation between the two organizations for the global spread of K-Entrepreneurship and the activation of economic education.

The signing ceremony was attended by Mayor Cho Gyu-il and Park Jae-wan, chairman of the Economic Education Organizations Council. Chairman Park previously served as Minister of Strategy and Finance and Chairman of the Samsung Electronics Board of Directors. He is currently the chairman of Sungkyunkwan University and the head of the corporate ecosystem division of the Industrial Transformation Project under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

Jinju City signed a business agreement to promote K-entrepreneurship and revitalize economic education.

The main contents of the agreement include ▲ global spread of K-Entrepreneurship ▲ expansion of educational infrastructure such as the establishment of the Korea Entrepreneurship History Museum ▲ development of entrepreneurship education programs for elementary, middle, and high schools and incorporation into textbooks ▲ hosting and mutual support of the K-Entrepreneurship (economic education) international forum.

Mayor Cho stated, “The Economic Education Organizations Council, which oversees economic education in the private sector, should actively participate in spreading K-Entrepreneurship through the Jinju K-Entrepreneurship International Forum, the establishment of the Korea Entrepreneurship History Museum, and the development of entrepreneurship education programs for elementary, middle, and high schools.” He also requested, “Please attend the Jinju K-Entrepreneurship International Forum to be held from July 9 to 11 and give a lecture on the theme of K-Entrepreneurship.”

Chairman Park accepted Mayor Cho’s request to lecture at the K-Entrepreneurship International Forum and said, “We will actively participate in the Jinju K-Entrepreneurship International Forum and the establishment of the Korea Entrepreneurship History Museum promoted by Jinju City, and work together to spread K-Entrepreneurship so that Korea can develop into a mature advanced civilization nation.”

The Economic Education Organizations Council was launched in 2017 to activate economic education and spread its importance. It includes five economic organizations?the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Korea Federation of Small and Medium Business, the Korea International Trade Association, the Korea Employers Federation, and the Federation of Korean Industries?as well as public institutions and civic groups, totaling 45 member organizations.

Jinju City remodeled the old Jisu Elementary School and opened the Jinju K-Entrepreneurship Center on March 29 last year. Within one year of opening, the Jinju K-Entrepreneurship Center has attracted over 36,000 visitors, rapidly emerging as a new local landmark. Jisu Elementary School is the alma mater of Samsung’s Lee Byung-chul and LG’s Koo In-ho, and is considered a sacred place of Korean entrepreneurship, having produced about 30 of Korea’s top 100 entrepreneurs in the 1980s.

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