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□ Addressing Economic Polarization
○ Responding to AI-Driven Labor Market Restructuring and Supporting Youth Advancement
● Developing and Implementing a Basic Plan for Employment Stability amid Industrial Transformation
- Build a job information hub for industrial transformation and develop the Korean AI Occupational Exposure Index (K-AIOE)
● Reviving Youth Employment
- Create 200,000+ jobs for young people
● Supporting Asset Building and Living Costs
- Launch a Youth Individual Savings Account(ISA) and support asset building across different life stages
● Supporting Marriage and Childbirth
- Expand opportunities for newlyweds to apply for special housing supply
□ Addressing Economic Polarization
○ Supporting the growth and recovery of SMEs and Vulnerable Groups
● Building a Nationwide Startup Ecosystem
- Nurture 15,000 innovative entrepreneurs in 2026 and expand startup support
● Promoting SME Growth
- Develop measures to improve tax, fiscal, and regulatory support systems
● Strengthening the Competitiveness of Small Businesses
- Provide a package of support for technology development and commercialization to help promising small business owners bring their ideas to market
● Bolstering the Social Safety Net
- Announce measures to refine the eligibility criteria for the earned income tax credit (EITC), including easing income requirements (July 2026)
□ Addressing Economic Polarization
○ Reducing Labor Market Disparities
● Protecting Workers' Rights
- Pursue the enactment of a framework act on the rights of working people
● Improving Employment and Working-Hours Systems
- Review flexible working hours and support diverse working arrangements
□ Pushing Ahead with Structural Reform
○ Driving a Major Shift toward Productive Finance
● Improving the Fundamentals of the Capital Market
- Expand demand in the domestic stock market by launching a productive finance ISA and allowing foreign investors with omnibus accounts to invest in ETFs
● Internationalizing the Korean Won
- Establish and operate an offshore Korean won settlement system (January 2027) while substantially relaxing FX regulations on capital transactions
- Provide incentives for the use of the Korean won in current account transactions
- Facilitate Korean won-denominated trade finance using currency swap funds
● Achieving Inclusion in the MSCI Developed Markets Index
- Strengthen regular communication with foreign investors, including through a consultative body of key global investors
□ Pushing Ahead with Structural Reform
○ Institutionalizing Public Sector, Tax, and Fiscal Reforms
● Strengthening Strategic Sovereign Wealth Management
- Enact a framework act on national assets to build a management system centered on asset utilization and value creation
● Tax Reform
- Conduct a zero-based review of tax expenditures
● Fiscal Innovation
- Undertake expenditure restructuring at the highest level on record
● Functional Reform of Public Institutions
- Undertake restructuring and consolidation of key public institutions, while streamlining subsidiaries and overseas branches
□ Pushing Ahead with Structural Reform
○ Responding to Demographic Decline
● Easing the Burden of Child-Rearing
- Expand the child allowance in phases
● Expanding the Foreign Workforce
- Announce an integrated foreign workforce support roadmap
- Expand eligibility for the Top-Tier Visa (F-2-T) and increase the number of designated K-Star track universities (from 5 to 32)
□ Pushing Ahead with Structural Reform
○ Strengthening the multi-tier retirement income security system
- Introduce a progressive benefit structure for the Basic Pension
- Undertake a comprehensive reform of the retirement pension system
○ Accelerating Regulatory Reform and Creating a Safer Society
● Accelerating Regulatory Reform
- Modernize outdated regulations and align them with global standards
● Creating a Safer Society
- Develop measures to raise fire safety standards to the level of those in advanced economies