KOTEC Holds Management Strategy Workshop to Foster Future Strategic Industries in Response to New Government

Discussion on Rapid Support Measures for Companies Affected by Heavy Rainfall

Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KOTEC) announced on July 24 that it would hold the "2025 2nd Management Strategy Workshop" at its headquarters in Busan, with executives, department heads, and branch managers from across the country in attendance.

This workshop, under the theme "The Third Venture Boom, KOTEC Takes the Lead," was organized to review KOTEC's current status and explore future strategies ahead of the new government's announcement of national policy tasks. The workshop will feature presentations and discussions on topics including: the new government's policy direction and KOTEC's response strategies; the current status of M&A business initiatives and support strategies for succession-type M&As; the K-Taxonomy self-diagnosis system to help SMEs achieve carbon neutrality; and measures for the rapid provision of special guarantees to companies affected by heavy rainfall.

Kim Jongho, Chairman of KOTEC, stated, "Now is the time to assess our current situation and design our future amid an uncertain economic environment," emphasizing, "For KOTEC to lead the market, it is crucial to respond flexibly to environmental changes." He added, "KOTEC must fulfill its responsibilities so that, through a virtuous cycle of growth and development together with small and venture businesses, we can meet the expectations of the new government, which is striving to revitalize the economy, as well as customers who seek practical support."

During the first half of this year, KOTEC supplied KRW 30.2 trillion in guarantees, KRW 900 billion more than initially planned. In particular, to strengthen support for future strategic industries such as AI, semiconductors, and carbon neutrality, KOTEC launched the AI·AX Preferred Guarantee in May and reorganized its headquarters' "Data Business Strategy Office" into the "AI Data Strategy Office" to actively promote AI transformation (AX).

In the second half of the year, KOTEC will establish the "Green Technology Finance Center," which will be dedicated to carbon value assessment and K-Taxonomy evaluation, Korea's green technology classification system. Since 2021, KOTEC has expanded its carbon neutrality support infrastructure by developing a carbon value assessment model, introducing the carbon value assessment guarantee in 2022, developing a taxonomy conformity assessment model in 2023, and implementing the taxonomy evaluation guarantee this year. With the establishment of this new center, KOTEC plans to further strengthen its support for carbon neutrality and green finance.

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