Chey Tae-won, president of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is holding back-to-back communication events with internal members to push organizational reform. The goal is to share the need for reform and gather on-the-ground feedback.
According to KORCHAM on the 29th, Chey will begin with a nationwide chamber presidents' meeting on the 31st and then hold a town hall and a series of roundtables with chamber members on the 2nd of next month.
After dismissing or accepting the resignations of four executives on the 20th over the distribution of a press release on the inheritance tax and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources audit findings on the budget execution for the APEC CEO Summit, the organization is moving to strengthen internal communication for reform.
Chey plans to personally outline the reform direction and gather members' views. Based on this, the organization will push ahead in earnest with the three core reform tasks: ▲ strengthening expertise ▲ redefining social responsibility ▲ innovating organizational culture.
Earlier, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry announced a reform course that includes creating an overall head of economic research and integrating oversight of existing research and survey units—such as the Sustainable Growth Initiative (SGI), the Research Bureau, and the Industrial Innovation Bureau—to strengthen policy capabilities.
Some observers say KORCHAM may use the organizational overhaul as an opportunity to normalize relations with the government. The official events that had been temporarily suspended after the "press release controversy" also resumed on the 12th.