Nine sectors, and an advocacy voice in Canberra.
For more than four decades, AKBC has worked alongside business leaders, governments and industry to advance policies that deepen trade and investment, strengthen economic security, improve market access and create new commercial opportunities between Australia and the Republic of Korea.
The nine Priority Sectors
AKBC’s own name for its industry-specific sub-committees. Nine sectors, in the order their own Priority Sectors page lists them, connecting members with senior leaders, investors, government stakeholders and decision-makers shaping the Australia-Korea relationship.
Seven Industry Groups
Advance, Immerse and Accelerate members get access to these seven specialised Industry Groups, as their own become-member page names them. Four of the seven names do not match the nine Priority Sectors word for word, and three Priority Sectors (Infrastructure and Real Estate, Sports Diplomacy and Soft Power, Technology and Innovation) have no Industry Group counterpart at all. Both lists are theirs and neither has been edited to match the other.
The Industry Experts Panel
A newly established advisory group providing specialist knowledge and strategic guidance to the Board and the Industry Groups, as their own page describes it. Their page publishes a short biography for each and no portrait for any of them.
How AKBC advocates
Their own account of what advocacy is for and who it represents.
The Australia–Korea Business Council (AKBC) is the leading independent business organisation dedicated to strengthening the Australia–Korea relationship.
akbc.com.au/advocacy- The annual Canberra Leadership Summit
- Policy submissions to Australian and Korean governments
- Direct engagement with Ministers, Parliamentarians and senior officials
- Bilateral government and industry roundtables
- Industry consultation with members and stakeholders
- Strategic policy papers and thought leadership
- Collaboration with partner organisations in Australia and Korea
- Representation of member priorities through the Australia-Korea policy dialogue
Current advocacy priorities
What AKBC says it advocates for, from its own advocacy page, read 22 September 2026. Its own words: advocacy is guided by the long-term competitiveness of the bilateral relationship, "rather than representing the interests of any single organisation."
What the research produces
AKBC’s own authored reports, in the order their publications page lists them, each with the date they publish. Third-party reports the same page links (from MinterEllison, DFAT, KOTRA and ASPI) are not reproduced: they are someone else’s work, not AKBC’s.
A trusted, independent voice for the Australia-Korea economic partnership.
For more than four decades, AKBC has worked alongside business leaders, governments and industry to advance policies that deepen trade and investment, strengthen economic security, improve market access and create new commercial opportunities between Australia and the Republic of Korea.