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Session: Networking
Seoul, Korea
In person

Welcome reception and dinner

Monday 12th October
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Session: Learning Visit
Center for Social Value Enhancement Studies (CSES)
In person

Focus: 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.

Session: Learning Visit
Seoul, Korea
In person

Visit to SPC Social Enterprise: AIWORKX

AIWORKX is an Agentic AI solutions company and one of Korea's most recognised social enterprises. Founded in 2015 as Testworks, it pioneered inclusive employment, training autistic talent and formally creating the "Data Manager" occupation, proven through an autonomous-driving data partnership with StradVision. It has led Korea's flagship public-interest AI programmes, from Korean Sign Language datasets to pedestrian-path data for blind and low-vision users, and extends its model abroad through KOICA programmes in Vietnam and Cambodia. Its mission - making AI beneficial for people - lives in its tagline, AI that Works: AI that works correctly, creates work, and works for society.

Session: Learning Visit
Seoul, Korea
In person

Visit to SPC Social Venture: Dot Inc.

Dot Inc. is an accessibility tech company dedicated to making information more accessible for people who are blind or visually impaired. Its flagship product, the Dot Pad, is the world’s first tactile graphics display, enabling users to experience images, maps, charts and educational content through touch. Building on this, Dot develops accessible kiosks that provide independent access to public services and information. By transforming visual information into tactile experiences, Dot is helping create a more inclusive world.

Session: Networking
Seoul, Korea
In person

Dinner

Tuesday 13th October
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Session: Panel
National Assembly
In person

Focus: 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.

Session: Panel
National Assembly
In person

Focus: Legislation and policy

The afternoon session will involve a workshop on local innovation, where much of Korea’s most adaptive policy practice now sits.

Session: Networking
Seoul, Korea
In person

Free evening

Wednesday 14th October
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Session: Learning Visit
Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation
In person

Focus: 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.

Session: Learning Visit
Merry Year Social Company (MYSC)
In person

Focus: 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.

Session: Networking
Seoul, Korea
In person

Dinner and night walking tour

Thursday 15th October
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Session: Learning Visit
Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA)
In person

Focus: 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.

Session: Learning Visit
Social Campus Seoul
In person

Focus: 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.

Session: Networking
Seoul, Korea
In person

Dinner and final closing reflections

Friday 16th October
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Session: Tour
Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
In person

Tour to the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)