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 Representing
the private business community, KCCI plays the role of intermediary
to resolve the difference of interests between the private and
public sectors. To fulfill its role, KCCI reviews legislative
bills and government policies with the interests of the business
community in mind, gathers private-sector opinions and presents
the government with effective policy alternatives.
Also, KCCI makes efforts to participate in the process of government's
policy formulation so that policy directives head towards the
right direction. To this end, KCCI officers and experts serve
as members to many of special advisory committees established
by the government, delivering the private sector's opinions
to the government on issues of concern.
These representatives serve as a point of reference for the
government when questions of economic import arise. |
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As the economy grows and its industry
structure becomes more complicated, more of conflicting interests
prevail in all fields of the economy.
In this regard, one of KCCI's major functions is (a) to collectively
coordinate the differences into one, and at the same time, (b)
to contribute to the promotion of Korea's whole commerce and industry
and the development of the national economy.
As its membership consists of all lines of business in Korea, KCCI is in a position to
collect and harmonize opinions of all participants involved.
In consideration of the above-mentioned nature, KCCI tries (a)
to accommodate the varying positions born from the different
interests of big businesses and SMEs, and also (b) to adjust
and harmonize the differences in the perspective of the national
economy. |
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 To
actively engage in the era of Digital Economy, KCCI operates KORCHAM.NET(http://www.Korcham.net) to link together
all regional chambers in Korea and also foreign chambers in the
whole world.
Through KORCHAMNET, KCCI now provides business portal service
that ranges from networking all nation-wide chambers and assisting
member companies' efforts to set up their own websites, to
establishing a business community among the member companies.
Also, KCCI is exerting efforts to provide information service,
by establishing e-business infrastructure for its member companies
including business information service known as KorChamBiz(www.korchambiz.net)
and electronic brochure service known as KorEan(www.koreannet.or.kr). |
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Research, focused on pinpointing
the difficulties members are facing and working out strategies
for overcoming them, is an essential part of the KCCI's activities.
KCCI provides a wide range of economic information to assist
Korean companies in coping with the rapid changes in the economic
environment and in improving their performance.
As part of the efforts to create valuable economic information,
KCCI is engaged in research activities on major issue that affect
all industries. Major fields of study include domestic economic
policies & trends, finance & taxation, international economic
trends, customs, and import-export related issues.
Furthermore, KCCI is engaged in research activities focusing
on SMEs, energy, SOC, labor, IT, environment, distribution,
logistics, and so on.
The outcome of these researches is provided to the member companies
as reference materials, and also to the government for basic
data in mapping out the policy directives. |
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 Along
with research activities, KCCI also hosts conferences, seminars
and other meetings that cover various fields for its members.
Moreover, KCCI organizes roundtable meetings by inviting government
officials and experts, so that there exists a channel for
the businessmen to relay their opinions to the government on
the spot. |
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 The
Human Resources Development Office (HRD Office) of KCCI is a
well-recognized leading organization for HRD in the Korean industries
since its establishment in 1994, and it has promoted its 8 Human
Resources Development Institutes under HRD Office to foster
the most capable and high-qualified industrial workers equipped
with skills and knowledge as well as spirit of challenges and
creativeness.
The HRD Office dedicates itself to providing world class vocational
and technical workforce with practice- and field-oriented education
and training in accordance with the industrial demands, principally
through a system of institutional education and training, thereby
making higher quality technical education and competency development
available to all those aspiring to life-long learning and to
improve their skills, productivity, and life regardless of educational
background, gender or race. |
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 As
computer technology develops at a rapid speed, traditional
office skills also have been changing innovatively. Computer
skills including word-processing have become a requisite for
those who want to enhance their work skills.
In this regard, KCCI operates the Vocational Qualification
Center, to administer testing of state-level certificate
such as word-processing and computer skills on behalf of the
government and further testing of eleven professional work-skills
including electronic commerce administrator and sales administrator.
The ultimate objective of these tests is to bring out high-quality
workforce and enhance industry competitiveness.
In future, KCCI plans to introduce official qualifications test
for web designer, OA technician, electronic publication technician
and multimedia expert, to cope with the changes in the economic
environment. |
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 KCCI
provides a management counseling service for the members who
wish to obtain or enhance their understanding on working-level
knowledge and information on the issues of corporate management.
Experts from all fields including international trade,
customs, industrial properties, taxation, accounting, industrial
property rights provide a one-on-one counseling and propose
solutions to the member companies on issues that trouble
them. Besides the counseling for businessmen, they also provide
support for those who want to start businesses.
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Information only has value if people
know how to find it and put it to use.
KCCI operates
its Internet Homepage(http://www.korcham.net) to
assist its member companies in accessing economic and business
information, and to provide specific corporate information for
those in need.
In the meantime, KCCI's library is open for its members.
The library contains some 15,000 domestic and international
publications including those issued by KCCI. |
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