Yoon Jin-sik, Chairman of Muhyeop, "Overcoming Crisis and Innovation DNA Are Korea's Growth Engines... Let's Write a New History"

Yoon Jin-sik, Chairman of Muhyeop, 2025 New Year's Address
"Geopolitical Conflicts, Instability Factors in Global Trade"
"Will Proactively Read Situations and Enhance Responsiveness"
Expansion of Overseas Bases and Discovery of Next-Generation Export Engines

On the 29th, Yoon Jin-sik, Chairman of the Korea International Trade Association (KITA), emphasized in his 2025 New Year's address that "the DNA of overcoming crises and innovation accumulated over a long period is the growth engine of Korea's trade that cannot be found anywhere else," urging the trade industry to "gather national wisdom and capabilities in 2025, a year facing a major paradigm shift in trade, to create a new history for our economy together."

Yoon Jin-sik, Chairman of the Korea International Trade Association Yonhap News

Chairman Yoon stated this while revealing next year's blueprint, saying, "We will focus on field-oriented projects to review the rapidly changing domestic and international trade environment and to promote innovation and competitiveness of export companies."

He pointed out, "In 2025, protectionism and prioritization of domestic interests by major countries, centered on the second Trump administration in the United States, are expected to spread. The sparks of global inflation and ongoing geopolitical conflicts remain unstable factors hindering world trade," and promised, "KITA will stand with our trade industry to face the challenges confronting our economy both internally and externally."

As the top priority, he said, "We will proactively read international situations to significantly enhance the trade industry's responsiveness." He added, "We will closely analyze the ever-changing trade environment, including foreign policies of major countries such as the United States and the European Union (EU), supply chain restructuring, and green barriers, and provide timely information. By strengthening strategic outreach activities, we will serve as a strong bridge for international trade encompassing public-private cooperation."

He continued, "To diversify export markets, we will expand overseas bases and strengthen marketing capabilities." He announced, "We plan to establish new offices in global South regions such as South America and Africa and operate KITA POST to actively support member companies in pioneering strategic markets." He also emphasized, "We will expand functions for discovering trade industry regulations and difficulties and for making government recommendations." He said, "We will operate a policy proposal system that continuously collects opinions from the trade field widely and immediately delivers them to the relevant government ministries in charge of regulations."

Finally, Chairman Yoon said, "We will focus on expanding the scope and qualitative growth of our trade." He stated, "We will cultivate next-generation export engines and create an innovative ecosystem in the trade industry so that promising companies in new industries can grow into global export companies."

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