HISTORY

Since its launch in 2004,
the KSP has greatly enhanced its effectiveness
through continuous institutional reform.

2025
  • 2025 KSP Dissemination Seminar held in conjunction with the APEC Finance & Structural Reform Ministers’ Meeting(October 21th, 2025/Incheon Inpire Resort)
  • Co-hosted the 2025 LAC Regional Seminar with UN ECLAC (September 9, 2025/UN ECLAC Headquarters, Chile)
  • Expanding KSP partnership with Leading Economies – Sweden, Italia, the United Kingdom, Spain, Australia
  • The 2024/25 Honduras KSP project titled ‘One-stop Digital Registration Window for the Attention of Citizens and Vulnerable Groups’ was followed by its linkage to NIA’s Digital Government Overseas Expansion Support Consulting Program.
2024
  • ’Strategic Plan to advance Knowledge Sharing Program’ announced(243rd Ministerial Meeting on International Economic Affairs)
  • KSP 20th Anniversary Dissemination Seminar held
  • KSP consultation incorporated into the framework for promoting the ’2024-2035 Real Estate Development Policy’ in Cambodia(’21/22 KSP)
  • Establishment of an Innovation Entrepreneurship Hub and Credit Guarantee Fund in Armenia(’22/23 KSP)
2023
  • ’Certification Program for KSP Outstanding Implementing Institutions’ launched
  • Enactment of Law for strengthening Public Services in Peru(’20/’21 KSP)
  • Formulation of Medium-Term Strategy for Tax Policy in Ghana(’17-’19/20 KSP)
  • Enactment of Law for establishing a Hydrocarbon Research Institute in Albania(’20/21 KSP)
  • Indonesia’s Smart Factory Implementation Project with the Ministry of SMEs and Startups of Korea(’22/’23 KSP)
2022
  • KSP Private Project Proposal initiated
  • Commencing KSP partnership with Leading Economies – Australia(22/23, Australia-Korea partnership on Critical Technology and Digital Economies)
  • Integrated Taxpayer Portal in Hungary introduced, benchmarking Korea’s Home Tax system(’20/21 KSP)
  • KSP consultation incorporated into the '2022-26 National Development Plan' and 'National Industrial Revival Policy', and improvement of the Unified Public Consultation System (SUCOP) in Colombia(’21-’22)
  • KSP Consultation incorporated into the ‘2022 Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy’ and establishment of a new Directorate of Technology in Ethiopia(’19/20 KSP)
  • Establishment of Paraguay Automotive Parts Center and Electric Vehicle Pilot Distribution Project with the Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy(’21/22 KSP)
2021
  • KSP Advancement Strategy for increasing Korea’s Soft Power released(224th Ministerial Meeting on International Economic Affairs and 39th Committee for International Development Cooperation)
  • Enactment of a Presidential Decree for Health Care System Reform and EDCF Project for establishing the National Medical Complex in Uzbekistan(’18/19 KSP)
  • Improvement of Mongolia's Securities Market Settlement System and re-inclusion on the FTSE Watch List (’17/18 KSP, with long-term dispatch from Korea Securities Depository)
2020
  • Economic Innovation Partnership Program launched with Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Indonesia
  • Emergency Projects in response to COVID-19 implemented (Ethiopia, Mozambique, Paraguay) and policy consultation on emerging infectious diseases
  • Enactment of the first Public-Private Partnership Law in Vietnam(’18/19 KSP)
  • Modernization and Expansion Project of the Callao Shipyard in Peru with the Korean Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries(’19-’20)
  • Feasibility Study for establishing Digital Media City in Konza, Kenya, followed with EDCF and EIPP
  • Joint Cooperation Project for e-Government with the Serbian Ministry and support for Korean companies' entry(’19/20 KSP)
2019
  • 1st Center for Advanced Industrial Training (CCAI) in Mexico established(’16) and expanded to 5 CCAIs (’12-’15/16 KSP)
  • National Testing Laboratory Policy in Colombia adopted(’17/18 KSP)
  • National Institute for Research in Labor and Social Protection(INCSMPS) in Romania established (’15-’19/‘20 KSP)
  • KOICA’s e-Procurement Project in Tunisia and Korean Ministry of Interior and Local Authorities’ e-Government Center project initiated(’18/19 KSP)
2018
  • Project for improving Intelligent Traffic System in Kenya initiated(’17/’18 KSP)
  • EDCF on Establishment of ICT Hubs for secondary eduction inSri Lanka(’16/’17 KSP)
2017
  • ’KSP 2.0’ announced (191st Ministerial Meeting on International Economic Affairs, support for economic cooperation with emerging countries)
  • KOICA project to support the establishment of the Vietnam-Korea Institute of Science and Technology (VKIST) linked with KSP (’12 KSP)
  • Revision of the Housing Guarantee Implementation Decree and Expansion of the Guarantee System Utilization in Kazakhstan(’16-’17 KSP)
2016
  • Patent Information System exported to the UAE(’14 KSP System Consulting)
  • Lao PDR’s Investment Promotion Law revised and Central Investment Promotion and Supervision Committee established(’15-’16 KSP)
  • Strategic Development Center for the formulation of Saudi Arabia’s National Development Plan established(’10-’13 KSP)
  • Korea-Kuwait MOU for Smart City cooperation and the Abdullah Smart City construction project (’14 KSP)
2015
  • 「KSP 10-Year History」 published
  • KSP Partner Countries expanded (from 2 countries in ’04 up to 44 countries in ’15)
  • EDCF-IDB Broadband Project in Nicaragua initiated(’13 KSP, dispatch of advisors and Korean companies)
  • Export-Import Bank of the Dominican Republic (BANDEX) established(’08-’14 KSP)
2013
  • KSP 10th Anniversary Dissemination Seminar held
  • System Consulting initiated (’13-’16, 25 projects)
2012
  • 1st KSP Regional Seminar (Eastern Europe, Asia, and Latin America)
  • Young KSPians (KSP Internship) launched
  • KOICA project to establish a waterworks system in Bandung, Indonesia(’12 KSP)
  • Korea-Saudi Arabia Nuclear Cooperation Agreement signed and bilateral technical cooperation continued(’10 KSP)
2011
  • Joint Consulting with International Organizations initiated
  • ’KSP Development Measures’ announced(11th Committee for International Development Cooperation)
  • Senior Advisor System launched
  • 'Ten-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy of Vietnam(2011-2020)' adopted (’09-’11 KSP)
  • IDB Project for Dominican Republic’s Power Distribution Network Modernization, contracted by the Korea Electric Power
2010
  • Modularization Projects of Korea’s Development Experiences launched(’10-’15, 148 projects)
  • KSP Local Consultant System introduced
2009
  • KSP selected as the National Flagship Program
  • Strategic Development Partner Projects initiated(’09-’15)
  • Introduction of the Credit Guarantee System in Vietnam(’08 KSP)
2008
  • Establishment of the Navoi Free Industrial Economic Zone (IFEZ) in Uzbekistan(’07 KSP)
  • KSP with LAC countries (Dominican Republic and El Salvador) initiated by Presidents’ visit to KDI
2006
  • 1st KSP Dissemination Seminar held
  • Establishment of the Enterprise Credit Assessment (ECA) in Vietnam(’04 KSP)
2004
  • Knowledge Sharing Program(KSP) launched
KSP Way
Operation