| Invited Session 7 |
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| Social Investment Fund |
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| Introduction |
KoreaSocial Investment is a foundation established with the object of contributing to sustainable welfare and regional development through social finance
Its vision is “Finance that Invests in a Sustainable Future”, and we will contribute to inclusive and virtuously cyclical development of our society.
Our foundation has managed Seoul Social Investment Fund, the first private-public joint social investment fund in Asia, assigned by Seoul Metropolitan Government.
Seoul Social Investment Fund is the financial resource for the purpose of public interest to improve the quality of its social members’ communal life and promote people’s welfare
It virtuously circulates the fund in the way of investment and loans to solve social problems without the additional budget of the government and citizens. In the long term as a financial resource it aims to tackle the social issues such as welfare, environmental and cultural problems. |
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| Core Businesses |
| Korea social investment takes a role of a pioneer in a social finance sector with those main businesses |
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1) Support social enterprises and others
- Make investment and loans to social enterprises, corporates, non-profit organizations and others
- Provide sustainable social services and create jobs
2) Treatpending social issues
- Investments and loans to support business expenses to solve pending social issues and support businesses through affordable non-profit organizations
- Find proper ways to mitigate massive social problems base on the partnerships with Korean government and others
3) Improve vulnerable People’s housing issues
- Improve the quality of vulnerable people's life through the management of tenement house construction projects and construction loans.
- Contribute to housing welfare and promote social enterprises in the construction field.
4) Develop and apply the index ofsocial value evaluation
- Build up an expert networks to develop and apply the measurement indicators of social benefits.
- Provide sustainable social services and create new jobs.
5) Diffusion of social investment concept
- Sharethe perception related to social investments and social finance through the hosting of international conferences, surveys and research.
- Raise social investment funds through the spreading of awareness about social investments. |
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| Overviews of Social Finance |
| It is a sustainable finance where funds are circulated to meet the demand for the creation of social, environmental and cultural values and the promotion of public welfare. |
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It raises capital through available financial services and pursues a virtuous cycle of funds in the way of investment and loans to solve massive social problems. |
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It utilizes social finance to perform social investments for the fundamental solution of welfare and social problems beyond of the scope of short-term and ex-post responses. |
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