KTL President Chung Dong-hee of Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL).

KTL President Chung Dong-hee of Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL).

Korea Testing Laboratory is strengthening support to help Gyeongsangnam-do nurture specialized industries such as defense, electrical/electronics and plant engineering equipment.

To this end, KTL announced a package of steps on Aug. 30 to assist companies in the provincial area. The institution will inaugurate the Changwon Corporate Support Center serving companies in Changwon in October. KTL will operate programs to offer differential corporate support to companies in the provincial area, while steps to ramp up SMEs’ competitiveness will be in place.

The corporate support programs include joint planning of state-invested projects, technology development and professional educational programs.

KTL is spearheading job creation to comply with the government’s policies as a public organization and fulfill its social responsibility. The institution is joining forces in creating good jobs like the expanded employment of regional gifted manpower and converting of non-regular employees into regular ones. In 2017, KTL hired nine employees from the provincial area, which accounted for 16 percent of a total of 56. The percentage was up from 8 percent in the previous year.

The institution continues to purchase agro-fisheries products from traditional markets to promote shared growth with the local community while delivering gifts to the underprivileged of the region during traditional Korean festivals. Goods KTL has purchased from traditional markets since 2015 amounted to accumulative 420 million won.

KTL, the nation’s sole public integrated testing certification institution, will establish an aerospace parts testing center at the Sangpyeong Industrial Complex in Jinju, which is to be put into service in late 2019.

The center is a testing facility designed to offer specialized testing services in accordance with the nation’s implementing projects to industrialize aerospace parts and national aerospace development programs.

The center will be outfitted with orbit environment, launch environment and electromagnetic wave testing labs on a lot of 5,940 sq. meters at a total cost of 27.1 billion won. An avionics technology center will be established in the neighborhood of the center, contributing to the development of the aerospace industry in the region.

KTL President Chung Dong-hee said, “(We’ll) at KTL devote ourselves to fulfill responsibilities and roles as a public integrated testing and certification organization to ramp up corporate quality and exporting competitiveness by making the most of experiences and expertise KTL has accumulated for 52 years.”

Nation’s Sole Public Integrated Testing & Certification Institution

KTL is established to enhance Korea’s industrial technology and competitiveness as an affiliated organization of the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. For over 40 years, it has executed various technology support needed in industrial fields as a comprehensive testing organization, including developing testing and evaluation technologies and assisting companies to obtain international certifications, and has contributed to improve industrial technology.

In this era of limitless competition, it is extremely significant to enhance product quality, safety, and reliability and to acquire international quality certifications to strengthen the company’s global competitiveness.

KTL will provide high quality testing and evaluation technology and information to exporters by implementing customer-oriented management that prioritizes customer satisfaction.

The institution will secure world-class competitiveness and promise to strive for the development of national industry and business growth. In addition, it will continue to fulfill our duty as Korea’s representative accreditation authority by pursuing exchange and cooperation with international advanced testing laboratories.