SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 businesspeople who established startup companies in South Korea think the local investment market for young businesses has weakened in 2022 from a year earlier, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the survey from the annual “Startup Trend Report 2022″ by Startup Alliance and Opensurvey, 82 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it has chosen nine startups that could lead the tech company’s future growth in digital health, metaverse and electric mobility. LG’s San Francisco-based North American Innovation Center wrapped up its two-day Fall Innovation Festival last week, where it announced nine most-promising startups in the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s biggest global startup festival COMEUP has selected 70 startup finalists to participate in this year’s gathering to be held in Seoul in November, its organizer said Tuesday. The Korea Startup Forum said it has selected 30 up-and-coming companies with strong growth potential to join the Rookie League [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s artificial intelligence (AI)-based medical equipment startups are establishing solid track records, playing a leading role in the digital healthcare market. A medical AI solution firm VUNO Inc., for instance, recently acquired licenses from the health authorities of Saudi Arabia and Thailand for its AI-based chest X-ray image [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of startups in South Korea fell nearly 5 percent in the first half of the year due mainly to a plunge in new real estate businesses, government data showed Wednesday. A total of 696,000 new companies were set up in the country in the January-June period, down [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of employees hired by South Korean startups rose by about 10 percent in one year, data showed Tuesday. According to the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, the number of employees hired by the nation’s 34,362 startups totaled 761,082 as of the end of June, up 67,605 from [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean conglomerate LG Group on Thursday inaugurated its startup support platform Super Start and unveiled a plan to foster 300 promising startups over the next three years by investing a total of 150 billion won (US$118 million). Super Start will serve as a bridge connecting promising startups with [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of startups in South Korea dropped 3.4 percent in the first quarter of the year due largely to a one-off factor, government data showed Thursday. A total of 348,732 startup businesses were set up in the January-March period, compared with 360,846 a year earlier, according to the [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — In tandem with the government’s pursuit of carbon-neutral policies and the business community’s embracing of the environment, social and governance (ESG) management trend, investment is flooding into startups in the ESG sectors. Domestic startups attracted 11.7 trillion won (US$9.51 billion) in investment last year, more than tripling from a [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of self-employed people who lag behind in information capability compared to large businesses are adopting startup application services designed to help the operation of restaurants and stores. Dodo Cart, a restaurant inventory management app operated by local startup Spoqa, provides an analytical report on the details [...]