Calling all VCs: Meet Korea’s brand new global startup hub

Twenty years ago, South Korea pulled out of the Asian Financial Crisis in only three years—and its economy has been thriving ever since. With that same drive, South Korea has begun to position itself as the Asian startup hub, with the express intention of not only boosting the economy, but of sparking the interest of global venture capitalists. And to back up their claim and prove their chops, they’ve made a massive investment in a project its Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning hopes will create a “South Korean Silicon Valley.”

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