[5th Impact for Breakfast Seoul Event]  

Interest in sustainable finance is growing worldwide, reaching $40 trillion in ESG investments and $750 billion in impact investment market size. 2021 may be a potential turning point year for Asia in Sustainable finance. However, Korea and East Asia remain significantly behind, both in terms of investment flows and Assets Under Management, compared to Europe and North America, Latin America and Africa. For Korea, this is a major gap (and opportunity) to grow the mobilization of responsible capital that (a) increases the flow of global capital to Korea, (b) co-investment opportunities in Korea and Asia, and (c) addressing key social and environment challenges facing Korea and the rest of Asia through Korean co-financing and expertise.

A recent study by The Asia Foundation, with inputs from IFB Seoul members, identified three key challenges in Korea’s sustainable finance landscape:

   1. Mainstreaming sustainable finance to the rest of the Korean economy

   2. Addressing inequality and social inclusion through sustainable finance

   3. Opportunities for regional and global linkages of Korean sustainable investment to Asia (e.g. co-investments), a one trillion gap to finance under-served enterprises, affecting two billion people

This month, to discuss the above challenges with implications to public policy, IFB Seoul welcomes Congressman Jung-Hun Cho (Member of National Assembly), President Jinho Chung (The Wells Investment), Mr. Sameer Gopal (World Bank Group), and Representative John Park (Barings Asset Management Korea)  and discusses key policy barriers – and an agenda for action - to unlock growth through sustainable finance, first in Korea, and then to Asia.

Date: March 31, 2021(Wed) 8am to 10am (Seoul)

Venue: Online (A link will be provided after your RSVP is completed)

RSVP: For those interested in joining the event, please first sign up for the IFB Seoul Membership via this link (click) and then RSVP for the event.

Please click here for additional details of this IFB event.

IFB is an informal global network of 1,700+ members from family offices, foundations, funds, venture philanthropy and intermediary organizations with a shared interest in social enterprise, entrepreneurship and impact investing. IFB members seek to learn from one another and to collaborate more effectively to increase their individual and collective impact. The Asia Foundation Korea is the Chapter Manager for IFB Seoul. For more information, please see: https://impactforbreakfast.com/