The Korean Association of Small Business Studies (KASBS) conducts the following projects to achieve the purpose of contributing to the development of small businesses through initiating research and enlightenment and encouraging companionship among them. (1) Researching on theories and practices of small businesses, (2) Permitting studies and researches on small businesses, (3) Publishing journals and books, (4) Presenting researchers and studies, (5) Partnering with other associations that support KASBS’s purpose, and (6) Other projects to achieve KASBS’s purpose.

In June 2009, ICSB Korea hosted the 54th Annual ICSB World Conference in Seoul, South Korea. For pictures, please click HERE.

http://www.kasbs.or.kr/

History

Council members Don Myers, Bob Butler and Gene Bonk met Ki-Jong Ryu, the head of the Korean Federation of Small Business, and Yoon-Bae Ouh, of Soong Sil University, at a World Association of Small and Medium Enterprises meeting in 1984. Almost immediately these key Korean leaders formed an ICSB chapter. Within a very short time, it reached the requisite level of 50 members for affiliate status, mostly industry members. Within five years, it had 100 members. Its first president, Ki-Jung Ryu, was elected a Wilford White Fellow that same year, and Yoon-Bae Ouh became ICSB’s first president from a Pacific Rim country. In 1993, acting for ICSB-Korea, its President Sang Kyu Park donated $5,000 toward the publication on the ICSB Membership Directory.