김대중, 노무현 정부의 중소기업 정책

This paper has evaluated small and medium enterprise policy as well as presidential agenda of president Kim Dae-Jung and Roh Moo-Hyun. The two presidents introduced new policy and system in the Korean government. While president Kim introduced distributive policies, president Roh introduced presidential agenda system in Korea. The two presidents also influenced greatly small and medium enterprise policies. That is, president Kim strongly drove the policy for venture business startups as well as introduced the concept of micro-enterprise policy. President Roh also drove promotive policy for innovative small and medium enterprises and strengthened supports for micro-enterprises. This paper found that presidents Kim and Roh had accomplished their small and medium enterprise policy goals and established the policy base for the next government. During president Kim’s government, the number of small and medium enterprise had greatly increased due to promotive policy for venture business startups, which resulted in creating jobs and boosting economy just after foreign exchange crisis in 1997. President Roh also increased jobs in the small and medium enterprises and strengthened management constitution of small and medium enterprises.