IQNET Association is an international network of conformity assessment bodies with legal seat in Switzerland. Its member organizations present around the world are chosen owing to their knowledge of their country markets, contribution in promoting quality and conformance among their stakeholders, maintenance of international accreditations, and commitment to abide with IQNET agreements in terms of worldwide business cooperation and regular peer evaluation.

KFQ is the IQNET Partner in South Korea since 1997.

Organizations certified by KFQ receives an IQNET certificate, an exclusive tool which allows them to confidently compete in the global market through recognition extended by IQNET Partners located almost anywhere around the world. List of countries could be found here. (https://www.IQNETcertification.com/en/about-us/finding-us).

KFQ can assist certified organizations in exploring conformity assessment requirements in other countries, from management systems to specialized schemes using IQNET's exclusive and harmonized cooperation mechanisms.

Organizations certified by KFQ are guaranteed of a credible, reliable, and verifiable conformity assessment activities as supported by the business advantages only IQNET can provide.

Objective of IQNET

• Provision of an international level of Certification Audit Service
• Improvement in IQNET Clients' International Credit Rating & Securing of Competitiveness
• Provision of various Certification Audit Service for all forms of Organizations and throughout the social fields
• Joint R&D activity and mutual cooperation for providing value-added certification audit service to clients
• Issuance of IQNET Certification for securing clients' international competitiveness and co-certification between member bodies

Advantages from IQNET

• Issuance of IQNET Certification assuring International use
• Be linked to an internationally recognized brand that no other local CB can provide;
• Through the international recognition of IQNET and its Partners, increase own image and credibility and facilitate contact and business relation with local clients, international retailers and buyers, public entities and NGOs;
• Give confidence to shareholders and other stakeholders that reliable and value focus management practices are in place
• Issuance of IQNET's Equivalence Statement helpful to entrance into International Arena
• Provision of IQNET's R&D Data
• Provision of newly updated international information
• Use of IQNET mark that strengthens international credit degree
• Extensive reduction in certification maintenance cost through co-certification service with IQNET member bodies for multi-national corporations

IQNET MLA

• Member bodies which obey ISO/IEC 17021-1 are aggressively doing mutual cooperation so that the Management Certificates issued by QNET member bodies can be
• smoothly used internationally by making Multilateral Agreement(MLA)-IQNET Regulations with IQNET.
• Concentrating its energy on improvement in credit rating of the management system certificate issued by IQNET member bodies
• Mutual Cooperation in order to provide certification service meetimg the requirements of multinational corporations
• Acknowledgment of the management system certificate value issued by other member bodies
• aggressive joining in all research activities related to IQNET activity and the development of operating procedures and publicity materials
• Publicity of IQNET
• Issuance of IQNET Certificate