Law firm Barun said on the 28th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with PS&M to jointly promote compliance and ESG training services.
Barun and PS&M signed the MOU as regulations surrounding corporations, including the Serious Accidents Punishment Act, the Fair Trade Act, and the Personal Information Protection Act, are strengthening rapidly, and as ESG (environment, social, and governance) risk management has emerged as a task with expanded disclosure obligations, driving up training demand for employees and partner companies.
Under the MOU, Barun and PS&M plan to cooperate in the following areas: ▲ joint planning and development of compliance and ESG training content ▲ promoting training to deepen understanding of legal issues and ESG for corporate employees ▲ operating customized internalization training programs for small and midsize partner and supplier companies ▲ jointly identifying client companies and conducting joint marketing and proposals.
Barun will lead the content and legal advisory areas, including planning compliance training and ESG risk training content based on analysis of legal and regulatory issues, designing programs related to legal-issue training and deepening understanding of ESG, and internalization training for small and midsize partner and supplier companies.
PS&M will oversee designing change-management programs to embed training solutions within organizations, organization-development consulting from an HRD perspective, and execution across the entire training operations process.
Barun and PS&M aim to build a "supply-chain-wide compliance training system" that covers not only prime contractors at large corporations but also small and midsize partner companies that have struggled to access specialized training.
Barun managing partner Lee Dong-hoon said, "In an environment where regulations and ESG demands are strengthening simultaneously, the most challenging part for corporations is rooting legal knowledge in the organization's day-to-day work." PS&M executive in charge of the education business Kim Jae-hwan said, "Compliance and ESG are no longer separate training tracks; they must be integrated as core capabilities of organizational operations."