The South Korean government is running social economic support centers which seek to activate the social economy of social enterprises, cooperatives and self-support businesses. There are 15 metropolitan governments and 27 primary local governments, total in 42 social economic support centers in South Korea now (2016). This study was carried out to analyze on the current situation of the primary local government social economic support centers’ design supporting division in South Korea.
The local government social economic support centers has different departments providing services of building business, business education, business support, business counselling and business development. As a result, we had analyzed and arranged the support services that the social economic support centers provide regarding design. Design supporting division has design development fees supporting department and promotion department. Design development fees supporting department is providing support for fees of creating brand (logo), R&D home page and products prototype. On the other hand, organizing product promotion, developing and publishing blog/webzine, creating and running home page services are supported by the promotion service department.