KB Kookmin Card (CEO Kim Jae-kwan) announced that it signed a ‘MOU for fostering startups and small business owners’ on August 28 with Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province (Governor Kim Jin-tae), Gangwon Regional SMEs and Startups Agency (Director Park Soon-hong), and Gangwon Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (CEO Lee Hae-jeong, hereinafter referred to as Gangwon Innovation Center).
This agreement aims to support the sustainable growth of promising local startups and small business owners. The signing ceremony was attended by Lee Ho-jun, Executive Director of KB Kookmin Card's Platform Business Group, Kim Man-ho, Director of the Economic Bureau of Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province, Park Soon-hong, Director of the Gangwon Regional SMEs and Startups Administration, and Lee Hae-jeong, CEO of the Gangwon Innovation Center.
Through this agreement, the four organizations will cooperate in various areas, including ▲discovering local startups and small business owners, ▲supporting sales channels linked to the KB Pay platform, ▲planning and operating joint programs, and ▲providing non-financial capacity building programs.
In particular, KB Kookmin Card plans to establish a special "Good Consumption and Small Business Mutual Growth" section within its simple payment platform, "KB Pay," and promote the distribution of local businesses' products through online promotional events. Furthermore, the company will also provide practical non-financial support, including marketing and branding.
Gangwon Province, the Gangwon Regional SMEs and Startups Agency, and the Gangwon Innovation Center plan to strengthen their support system to enable businesses to grow in a more stable startup environment through administrative support, institutional foundation establishment, and customized support for each growth stage.
Each organization expects that this agreement will contribute to the creation of a startup ecosystem based on public-private cooperation, as well as to strengthening the competitiveness of local startups and small business owners and expanding their market presence.
Lee Ho-jun, Executive Director of KB Kookmin Card, said, "We will actively utilize our financial and platform capabilities to help excellent local companies become self-reliant in the market."
Kim Man-ho, director of the Gangwon Province Economic Bureau, said, “I hope this agreement will serve as a practical stepping stone for the growth of local businesses.”
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