Koo Yun-cheol, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance, said on the 21st that the government will introduce a strategic export shared-growth contribution so that the profits of beneficiary corporations lead to a virtuous cycle that strengthens competitiveness across the ecosystem.
Koo said this at the first 2026 economic ministers meeting held at Government Complex Seoul on the morning of the same day, saying the government will establish a strategic export finance fund and strengthen financing capacity.
He said the government will expand financial support not only for large-scale projects such as defense, nuclear power, and plants, but also for long-term and low-credit projects that have been limited so far, to back new market entry, adding it will also swiftly push to enact the Tentative Title: Act on Strategic Export Finance Support.
In addition to measures to strengthen support for strategic export finance, the meeting discussed strategies for shared growth between large and small corporations and measures to bolster final treatment capacity at regional responsible medical institutions.
Koo emphasized that the Lee Jae-myung administration will shift away from a structure in which the outcomes of economic diplomacy were recirculated mainly to large corporations, moving toward expanding overseas entry opportunities for small and midsize corporations and strengthening the supply of growth capital.
To that end, the government will offer preferential export finance limits and interest rates for joint overseas expansion projects by large and small corporations and expand the size of shared-growth finance from the existing 1 trillion won to 1.7 trillion won. If a large corporation grants to the shared-growth cooperation fund, it will also receive a corporate tax reduction of up to 10%.
In addition, the performance-sharing system will be expanded to transactions among all corporations, including platforms and distribution, and the co-prosperity evaluation will also be conducted for all public institutions.
Regarding strengthening regional health care, Koo said the government will swiftly improve the aging infrastructure of regional responsible medical institutions in 17 cities and provinces to raise regional medical capacity, adding it will invest 203.0 billion won in 2026 to expand intensive care units and support the introduction of advanced and critical care equipment.