South Korea MOEF Financial Support Plan for Addressing Trade Risks (통상 리스크 대응 금융지원 프로그램) — KRW 28.6tn

Mechanism

The plan formalizes a coordinated policy-finance response to the tariff shock from the 2025 US reciprocal-tariff regime, channeled through Korea's existing policy-finance architecture (KDB, IBK, Korea Eximbank, and regional credit guarantee funds) rather than a new standalone instrument. The KRW 16.3tn emergency-stabilization tranche targets firms with documented tariff-driven order or revenue loss; the KRW 7.4tn new-market tranche funds low-interest loans/guarantees for exporters diversifying away from the US market; the KRW 4.9tn tranche supports equipment investment and restructuring in tariff-exposed industries (expected to include steel, automotive parts, and machinery given Korea's US-tariff exposure profile).

Downstream implications

• Sits alongside Korea's later 2026 quota-tariff plan

(2026-01-01-south-korea-moef-2026-quota-tariff-plan) and other 2025-26 Korean industrial-policy responses to US tariff pressure — part of a broader domestic-cushioning package that also includes sector-specific loan schemes (KDB Advanced Strategic Industry Fund, IBK-KIBO tech financing).

• Watch for sector-level drawdown data (which industries draw most

from the KRW 16.3tn emergency tranche) as a proxy for which export sectors are most tariff-exposed.

Open questions

• No public breakdown by sector or company found in the primary

source attachments (PDF/HWP not machine-readable from this fetch); revisit if a follow-up MOEF release itemizes disbursements.

• Exact program end date / sunset clause not stated in available

sources.