□ Safety Certification Center of Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency (KOSHA) provides ‘R&D and testing equipment purchasing Funding'. The funding supports within 50% of the cost, equivalent up-to 50 million won for R&D and 20 million won for testing equipment purchasing. Rest of the cost would be paid by enterprises.

○ Support for the equipment was expanded from 10 million won to 20 million won compare to the last year.

□ Four enterprises had been supported their R&D and six others has registered five domestic patents and one design patent thanks to the funding in the previous year.

□ Application for the R&D and testing equipment purchasing funding is opened until 15th February, and KOSHA will select beneficiaries via evaluation at the end of the month.

○ The selected enterprises shall be certified for protective device/equipment or registered as an enterprise self-regulatory safety check as well as a manufacturer to KOSHA

○ Director of the safety certification center Bong-ho Kim said "Financial support for R&D and testing equipment purchasing enhance quality of protective device/equipment, also competitiveness of SMEs which have relatively less financial capacity and technology."