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RockCorps Korea is coming?

October 27, 2024 Innovation

I’m going back to this last May 2024… cause it was such an AWESOME event and concert! RockCorps Korea is coming? hmmm… heehee!! 🙂 Here is my semi-cold email to my friends, colleagues and C-levels strangers: ___ Hi ( ), My name is Richard Min, a VC fund executive. (Former…

Don’t Die Korea (Seoul) Meetup

October 4, 2024 Innovation

— Saturday, October 12, 2024 // 10.12.2024 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM, Location: A Twosome Place (Gangnam Station, Exit 4) 362 Gangnam-daero, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea https://maps.app.goo.gl/8Ts9u1ShptwRLj9p6 (Seoul, South Korea) https://app.getriver.io/events/dont-die-korea-seoul-q3h — ANYONE could join! I will pick nutrition as my “go-to-thing”, but you could pick fitness, or career,…

The Last Month: Startup Seoul 2019

May 6, 2019 Innovation News Startups

Well, here are these pictures from Startup Seoul roughly 4 weeks: The order is mixed up and the names mixed up too. Ah, the better to match names with the faces. Good luck. Haha! Ready? Go! (And aquarium and plant-based foods to show you’re interested. ha.) Victor Ching, CEO…

“First” in terms of startup stuff in Korea. I have a lot of them.

May 2, 2019 Editorial Innovation Personal Startups

Korea Innovation and Startups It is a thing. A really big thing. I have a place in it. First in its formation… and it doesn’t stop there. And this time, and I’m doing it right. No freaking “too early” for Korea. It’s the peak time in a Korea (and Asia).…

The Korea Market and Plant-based Foods

April 25, 2019 Health Innovation Startups

Interesting. The Korea market sounds good. Hmmm… maybe I will to get ahead of it. Sort of pre-pre-pre-market to get into. Hah. Whether you like or not, it IS coming. Retailers seize on growing consumer appetite for plant protein By Kwak Yeon-soo Cho Kyung-rim, 23, is a pescetarian, who does…

Sam Yu (유승삼) of ICTK

April 18, 2019 Innovation Startups

S. Sam Yu (유승삼), former President and General Manager of Microsoft Korea, and the CEO and Vice Chairman of ICTK Holdings (Integrated Circuit Technology Korea) got to show us a tour and pitch deck for ICTK Holdings. “ICTK holdings does help manage ID and Key right for IoT era, especially…

L’Oreal acquisition of Style Nanda. Niiiice!!

March 15, 2019 Innovation Startups

It’s old (6 months?), but it relevant and it’s Korea, so I will post it. Ha. L’Oreal purchases Nanda, one of the Korean startups in the fashion space. Could this be a trend? I hope so. L’Oreal completes acquisition of Style Nanda French cosmetics giant L’Oreal said on June…