중소벤처기업부가 주최 오백볼트투가 주관하는 ‘2017 벤처창업 페스티벌’이 코엑스에서 11월30일부터 12월 2일 까지3일간 개최 되었다. 행사는 글로벌 창업생태계 교류를 위한 유료행사(B홀)와 벤처창업 붐 확산을 위한 무료행사(C홀)로 나뉘어 진행되었다.특히 글로벌 교류 프로그램에는 해외 참여자 600명을 비롯한 국내외 창업자, 벤처투자자, 미디어 등 4000명이 모여 소통한다. 해외 유명 투자자 '리레이 벤처스(Relay Ventures) 공동설립자 존 알브라이트(John Albright)와 앤젤스 덴(Angels Den

Startup Festival 2017 was a huge success and for their first year. The Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity (KOFAC) has been creating spaces and infrastructures to support individuals in Korea realize their creative ideas. KOFAC along with the Ministry of SME’s and Startups h

Korean Startup Miso is a home cleaning service has big plans after their $2.7 million seed from Silicon Valley investors and Y Combinator. Miso allows customers to have next day cleaning services through their app and website. The home cleaning service in South Korea alone is a $5 billion market. Mi

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy stated today that South Korea will look to invest close to 14 trillion won which is over $11 billion dollars into new energy industries like solar power for 2017. This move was to make these new energy industry sectors the face of the countries efforts for

Ever since the Cold War, the tensions between North Korea and South Korea has been extremely high. As South Korea embraced new technologies like the internet, there has been strong efforts to stop cyber attacks, especially by North Korea. The Korean government has always embraced strong cybersecurit

The world is changing and many are calling the emergence of big data, AI, and machine learning as the fourth industrial revolution. These new technologies will impact not only the physical space but also the digital space. Economies, industries, and ideas will be challenged. A Korean advanced techno

Koreans have a problem with posture. Many Koreans work in offices in front of computers and the younger teen generation is in front of computers in P.C. rooms or at home playing the latest online games. All this sitting and slouching can lead to terrible posture. There are a lot of smart wearables t

A small Korean startup named Dot is looking to make a huge difference in the visually impaired community that is estimated to be over 230 million worldwide. Dot is considered to be the first braille smartwatch and has won many awards such as the Grand LIA for Design Award. The patented Dot technolog

South Korea is becoming one of the most vibrant nations in the world and a growing tourist destination. South Korea has come a long way since the Korean War where their national income per citizen was the same as the country Ghana. In 60 years they have become one of the top economic powers in the w

California’s Silicon Valley is the first thing you think of when you hear Startup but South Korea with their cutting edge mobile infrastructure, high speed broadband network, and young eager entrepreneurs are starting to get in on the action too. As a byproduct of this trend, non-Koreans have starte

Startups in Korea need to find the right contacts in order to survive. Knowing which VCs can help you is the key in any early success for Korean startups. Here at the top 5 Venture Capitalists that every Korean startup should know and get to know.5) John Ryu is a seasoned startup operating executive

2015 is at an end. It is very hard to predict what will be trending in 2016 but based on some data already collected it is not hard to see what the future holds. Here are the top 5 BOLD predictions for 2016 and where the next generation tech startups will go from here. 3D Printing will not be a play

South Korea does over a million cleaning transactions per week. Many are done by older woman looking for a steady income despite their low/limited education. However 1/3 of customers are not satisfied with the service. WaHome is a Korean startup based in Seoul founded by John Lee and Edward Hahn tha

WaHome has been a huge success in Korea so far. It is an cleaning service app that allows the cleaners to choose the jobs they want to do from the comforts of their own home. There has been a huge movement for on demand mobile based services. The startup boom in Korea is focused on companies that be

The success of the Kakao taxi is expanding to support the korea startups.Kakao Corp., the provider of mobile messaging platform Kakao Talk as well as Korea’s successful on-demand service Kakao Taxi, announced that its CBO John Jung will be presenting at the Mobile World Congress 2016 on Feb. 25th, t

TechCrunch the leader in technology media is coming to Seoul once again! They will be doing their meet-up/pitch-off to find promising startups, review new innovative products, and find the latest breaking tech news. The event will be held on October 27th and TechCrunch will be looking for 10 South K

Ministry of SMEs and Startups is opening on 21st November at Baekyangnoori, Yonsei University. Acoording to the organizers, the fair will be held under the theme of “recognition improvement” and “job matching”. Middle and high school students with thei

In Washington D.C, under the law legislation of prohibiting tall buildings, small condominiums are easy to find. Mostly small condominiums own condominium associations and those associations take care of the building, including taxes payment, facilities maintenance, and so on. However, as it is smal

On the 16th of November Hyundai alongside SKT and Hanwah have announced that they have established the ‘AI Alliance Fund’ to support global start-up groups with revolutionary technologies and creative ideas. Each three companies have invested each 15M dollars to the fund, operating with $45M (50 bil

2017 벤처창업페스티벌 : Startup Festival 2017’(이하 SF 2017)이 오는 30일부터 내달 2일까지 3일간 서울 코엑스 B홀에서 개최된다.이 페스티벌은 중소벤처기업부(이하 중기부)가 주최하고, 국내 최초 광고대행 얼라이언스 기업 ㈜오백볼트투와 ㈜브랜드쿡, 한국과학창의재단, 창업진흥원, 대·중소기업·농어업협력재단, (사)한국창업보육협회, 한국벤처캐피탈협회가 공동으로 주관한다.이번 페스티벌은 ‘혁신 성장, 스타트업 생태계와 함께! (Growth by Innovation, with Startup Ecosystems