The Korea Federation of SMEs held the "On-site Dialogue for Rationalizing Regulations on Small and Medium Enterprises" at the KBIZ Hall in its Yeouido headquarters in Seoul on the 1st and submitted 100 regulatory improvement tasks identified on-site to the government. As President Lee Jae-myung has recently prioritized regulatory reform as the top task to reverse the potential growth rate, the purpose was to request that outdated systems constraining businesses be swiftly improved.
During the on-site dialogue, key agenda items included several pressing issues in the SME sector, such as the "mandatory inclusion of industrial safety and health management costs in subcontracted construction projects to prevent primary contractors from shifting safety management cost burdens to partners" and the "expansion of the scope of public software (SW) projects available exclusively to SMEs to less than 6 billion Korean won."
The event was attended by approximately 100 people, including Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, vice ministers from related ministries such as the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Ministry of Science and ICT, Kim Ki-mun, chairman of the Korea Federation of SMEs, heads of SME organizations, and chairpersons of cooperative associations by industry, who exchanged opinions. Chairman Kim Ki-mun emphasized, "Regulatory reform is the most effective policy through which the government can support businesses without spending a single won of the budget." Prime Minister Kim Min-seok stated, "We will engage in more on-site dialogues with SMEs."
Source: https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2025/12/02/XQ77AGVXQBDKLGAANZUXT2KDX4/