South Korea's leading business federation, representing domestic and foreign-invested companies on trade, industry and regulatory policy issues.
Korea's chamber of commerce sent the reform task force 75 company proposals on the 15th, with offshore wind occupancy fees the most prominent. Ulsan firms say fees tied to nearby land prices differ by more than several dozen times.
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Korean exports of seven food, beauty and bio products reached $15.59 billion in January-August, 4.2 times 2016 against 2.2 times for all exports. On the chamber's figures the U.S. and Europe now take 52% of it, up from 19%.
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South Korea will put 1,000 trillion won of fiscal and financial support into its K-GX green plan through 2035, alongside 220 trillion won of private projects. Spread over ten years, that is 100 trillion won a year from the state against 22 trillion won from companies.
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Finance Minister Lee Hyoung-il said Korea will scrap on-site rules blocking corporate investment, including the permit wait on a 4 trillion won Ulsan EV plant. Seoul's bet is that faster permits can turn a chip-led upturn into investment that outlasts it.
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Korea's Financial Services Commission is reviewing an exemption from Scope 3 reporting, due from 2031, for companies outside high-carbon industries. The rules reach only large KOSPI issuers, so the carve-out would spare a subset of them the supplier-data work that companies rank as the hardest part of disclosure.
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Korea and ASEAN open a second round in Singapore to rewrite their 2007 goods-only FTA across 13 working groups. Companies sourcing through Southeast Asia should expect revised origin checks and minerals rules to arrive before any tariff cut.
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KCCI's manufacturing outlook rose 6 points to 86 for the fourth quarter, yet 60.4% of 2,413 Korean manufacturers expect to miss this year's profit targets. Production costs are the main obstacle for 43.2% of firms, against 24.9% citing weak orders, so the profit gap comes mostly from input prices.
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A KCCI and KICOX survey of 300 exporters found 99.3% face buyer demands for emissions data, and most run it through in-house systems with no shared standard platform.
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