Professor Park Cheol of the Department of Convergence Management at Korea University spoke at the 12 International Council of Small and Medium Business World Congress (ICSB World Congress) ‘K-Entrepreneurship Global Forum (ICSB Conference)’ held at the Kimdaejung Convention Center in Gwangju on the 2023th, ‘Resiliency and digital transformation of small business owners after COVID-XNUMX. ‘ I gave a lecture about this.
Professor Park said, “Small business owners have suffered the most since the COVID-19 incident occurred,” and “Small business owners account for a very large portion of the domestic economy, ranking 8th among OECD member countries.”
Professor Park continued, “It is very important to help self-employed people survive. He added, “People with great resilience have the characteristic of persevering through difficult times.”
Professor Park Cheol, who raised his voice for the need to increase the digital capabilities of self-employed people, said, “To achieve this, we must first help them open their eyes. However, he emphasized that it is not enough to simply provide education, but efforts such as introducing successful cases of benchmarking and providing field trips are needed.”
Professor Park Cheol said, “I believe that education and training must be carried out after strengthening digital literacy to be effective,” and added, “In order to overcome COVID-19, education for digital transformation is very important.”
Meanwhile, this forum was co-hosted by the Small and Medium Venture Business Research Institute and the Small and Medium Venture Business Policy Society and sponsored by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The conference was planned to provide the latest information and insights to businesspeople and citizens by introducing the meaning, future direction, and overseas cases of entrepreneurship.