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International Trade and DevelopmentSeoul, South Korea1001-5000 Employees
KOTRA is an organization in the International Trade and Development industry, based in Seoul, South Korea. It has between 1,001 and 5,000 employees. Since 1962, as part of Korea’s first five-year Economic Plan, KOTRA has worked to create new export markets and increase Korea’s trade value, a figure that reached $1 trillion in 2011. In the late 1990s, the agency started its foreign direct investment promotion division to help Korea respond to the Financial Crisis. Today, KOTRA focuses on the globalization of SMEs by providing customized support related to global business establishment and export, and it seeks to expand Korea’s trade sector by increasing exports of growth industries such as the knowledge service industry, medical-bio industry, and green industry, contributing to the economic development of Korea and developing countries through technological innovation, industrial infrastructure formation, and HR development.