President Lee Jae-myung will preside over the second plenary meeting of the Regulatory Reform Committee at the Blue House on the 23rd to discuss regulatory reform measures aimed at fostering leading-edge advanced industries, promoting region-led growth and ushering in a national startup era.
The presidential office disclosed the schedule on the 20th. The meeting comes about six months after the first plenary session held in April.
About 100 people from the private sector, the government and the presidential office will attend. From the private sector, three vice chairpersons and 25 civilian members will participate, along with some 40 invited company representatives and experts connected to the agenda items, whose on-site difficulties and suggestions will be heard as part of a field-focused discussion.
Seventeen government officials will attend, including the prime minister; ministers or vice ministers from the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups; the minister of the Office for Government Policy Coordination; the chairpersons of the Fair Trade Commission and the Financial Services Commission; the heads of the Ministry of Government Legislation and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety; and the commissioner of the Korea Customs Service. From the presidential office, the chief of staff, the policy chief, the special adviser for national strategic investment, the special adviser for fiscal planning and the senior secretaries for economic growth, social affairs and AI future planning will be present.
In the session on regulatory reform for fostering leading-edge advanced industries and region-led growth, the Office for Government Policy Coordination will report on the direction of regulatory reform to support mega-projects and the growth engines of the "five poles and three special zones" initiative. Measures to ease regulations raised in the field will then be presented for each of the initiative's main growth engines — robotics, semiconductors, AI data centers, self-driving cars and biotechnology — by the Office for Government Policy Coordination, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, respectively.
In the session on regulatory reform for the shift to a national startup era, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups will present measures to rationalize regulations on startups. The Office for Government Policy Coordination, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment will also present plans and key examples for redesigning administrative paperwork for startups. Participants will then hold an open discussion on how to overhaul unreasonable startup-related regulations.
The meeting will be broadcast live on KTV so that the public can watch the discussions in real time.