Events / Ecosystem Leadership Exchange
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Seoul, Korea 
In personWelcome reception and dinner
Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies (CSES) In personFocus: Innovative finance
The morning session will explore the Korean ecosystem map and CSES’s Social Progress Credit (SPC) model. The Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies (CSES) is SEWF’s research and design partner for this programme. CSES co-developed and operates the Social Progress Credit with SK Group — the world’s first privately-led pay-for-success programme, which has mobilised over USD 360 million in verified social value and disbursed USD 52 million in cash incentives to more than 400 social enterprises since 2015.
Seoul, Korea In personVisit to two SPC social enterprises
Seoul, Korea In personDinner
National Assembly In personFocus: Legislation and policy
The morning session will involve a workshop on Korea’s social economy legislative framework. Sessions will be hosted at Korea’s National Assembly, the country’s legislature and the policy nerve-centre of Korea’s social economy framework. Participants will arrive at a landmark moment: the Framework Act on Social and Solidarity Economy - over a decade in the making - is expected to be adopted in the months leading up to the programme, establishing a national infrastructure of committees, finance and intermediary support.
National Assembly In personFocus: Legislation and policy
The afternoon session will involve a workshop on local innovation, where much of Korea’s most adaptive policy practice now sits.
Seoul, Korea In personFree evening
Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation In personFocus: Private sector engagement
Learn more about private sector engagement from the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation. Established in 2007, the Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation is one of Korea’s most ambitious corporate foundations. Through its H-OnDream Startup Ground programme it has backed impact ventures for over a decade, and in March 2026 launched the Global ImpactPreneur accelerator with the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre to scale Asia-Pacific impact entrepreneurs.
Merry Year Social Company (MYSC) In personFocus: Private sector engagement
Learn more about private sector engagement from MYSC. MYSC (Merry Year Social Company) is Korea’s leading social innovation consultancy and impact investor, founded in 2011 and a certified B Corporation. MYSC structured Asia’s first social impact bond (the Seoul SIB) and now manages multiple impact funds totalling over KRW 65 billion, working across Korean conglomerates, government, and a portfolio of 160+ ventures.
Seoul, Korea In personDinner and night walking tour
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) In personFocus: Public sector pathways to market
Learn more about public sector pathways to market from KOICA. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), founded in 1991, is Korea’s official development cooperation agency under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is globally distinctive for routing public development finance through social enterprises and impact ventures via instruments like its Inclusive Business Solution, Creative Technology Solution and Innovative Partnership Programme.
Social Campus Seoul In personFocus: Public sector pathways to market
KOSEA (Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency) — the public body established under the 2007 Social Enterprise Promotion Act that certifies, finances and supports Korea’s social enterprises, and operates the Social Value Index — will lead the afternoon session at Social Campus Seoul. Discussion will focus on how a state-led certification and procurement regime has grown Korea’s social enterprise base into the thousands, and the questions of independence, quality and market access that come with that scale.
Seoul, Korea In personDinner and final closing reflections
Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) In person