This research project is a three-year program effort designed to analyze and diagnose our industrial supply chains from an economic security perspective and find ways to improve national responses to economic security risks arising from various causes and channels. This report is the first year project of the aforementioned three-year program, namely “Comprehensive Research on Industrial Supply Chains to Strengthen Economic Security.”

First, the concept of economic security is established from the perspective of the industrial supply chains. Through this, it is possible to determine what implications the concept of economic security has from an industrial supply chains perspective and what needs to be observed from a policy viewpoint. After the concept of economic security is established, the economic security environment and conditions currently facing Korean industrial supply chains and the operating and ripple mechanisms of economic security risks are identified, and policy measures are investigated to establish effective national responses to such risks in the years to come. 

The main purpose of this study is to analyze and diagnose the structural characteristics of economic security risks contained in the supply chains of our high-tech strategic industries such as semiconductors and batteries, and based on the findings, explore ways to respond to the economic security risks of our core strategic industries. In particular, by deriving the limitations and problems of identifying the economic security structure and diagnosing risks analyzed through this study, we will examine and suggest matters necessary for systematic analysis and management of economic security risks in the future.