Center for Free Enterprise | |
Founder: | Gong Byeong Ho |
Established: | 1996 |
Mission: | to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to increase the understanding of free markets, free markets and individual liberty. |
President: | Choi Seung Ro |
Staff: | 19 |
Non-Profit Slogan: | "Individual Liberty, Free Markets, and Free Enterprise." |
Location: | Seoul, South Korea |
Address: | Jeil Building 44-3, Yoido-dong, Youngdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Korea 150-890 |
The Center for Free Enterprise is a libertarian, formerly neoconservative, think-tank based in Seoul, South Korea.
Although the CFE was originally established upon the libertarian belief according to the philosophy of Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, in later years, it expressed neoconservative, authoritarian or even McCarthyist ideas. For example, CFE enthusiastically advocated the nationalization of history textbooks in Korea, which was mainly discussed under the Park Geun-hye administration. Some libertarian scholars considered that the CFE had ruined libertarian ideas. However, after the impeachment of the Park administration, in 2017, the CFE changed its name from "자유경제원" to "자유기업원".