[2025 Korea Small and Medium Enterprise Awards] Achievement Award Industry Promotion
Chairman Park Jong-beom
Chairman Park Jong-beom of Youngsan Group has received the Merit Award (Industrial Promotion) at the '2025 Korea Small and Medium Enterprise Awards'.
Amid the 1998 financial crisis, Chairman Park founded a trading company with a capital of KRW 100 million, establishing a business network across 20 countries including Europe and Africa, and is regarded as a model of global management. As the 25th President of the World Federation of Overseas Korean Traders Associations (World-OKTA), he successfully achieved a historic two-year consecutive term, leading bases in 154 cities across 74 countries.
Through the 'Korea Business Expo', Chairman Park connected over 500 domestic small and medium enterprises with overseas buyers, signing export memorandums of understanding totaling USD 170 million (approximately KRW 250 billion). He is also supporting the circulation of overseas Korean retained funds into the domestic youth startup ecosystem, promoting a global win-win model.
Chairman Park plans to focus on nurturing next-generation K-startup unicorns in AI, semiconductors, robotics, platforms, and content. He stated, "I will assist Korean companies in expanding globally and further strengthen the global Korean economic network."
Choi Ji-soo
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