[Seoul Wire] Korea Culture Information Service, "To Indonesia with Startups and SMEs Utilizing Cultural Data"

[Seoul Wire] Korea Culture Information Service, "To Indonesia with Startups and SMEs Utilizing Cultural Data"


- Operating domestic and overseas programs for entry into Indonesia
- Providing opportunities for cultural data utilizing startups/SMEs to enter Indonesia by selecting a total of 5 companies
[By Lee Myung-chul, Seoul Wire Reporter] The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Park Yang-woo, hereinafter MCST) and the Korea Culture Information Service (Director Lee Hyun-woong, hereinafter KCIS) announced on the 18th that they will conduct a support project for the overseas expansion of startups and SMEs utilizing cultural data.
In this project, KCIS selected a total of 5 startups/SMEs utilizing cultural data, and plans to operate a local accelerating program over a total of 5 days, starting with domestic pre-education and departing for Indonesia on October 27th, until November 2nd.
The program consists of domestic pre-education and mentoring for entry into Indonesia, market entry education through a local startup accelerating program in Indonesia, networking with unicorn companies and investment institutions, and local IR pitching and business partnering.
The participating companies in this project were 'Move Co., Ltd.', a mobility service for truly free travel, 'Emotionwave', an artificial intelligence Korean traditional music performance robot, 'Trip&Car', a free travel platform for ASEAN Muslim tourists, and 'Wedding Trip', a wedding tourism platform centered on the Southeast Asian market, and 'Ourrang Korea', an online language study program.
KCIS conducted [Culture Data Utilization Startup Education] in Daegu·Gyeongbuk, Chungbuk·Cheongju, and Seoul·Gyeonggi for this project last August, with a total of over 70 trainees participating.
Director Lee Hyun-woong said, "With the advent of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the diffusion speed of cultural content is accelerating, and there is an increasing need to support not only domestic commercialization for culture data utilization companies but also strengthening export competitiveness." He added, "Through a program that secures overseas expansion and export opportunities for domestic culture data utilization startups and SMEs via Indonesia, which has the world's 3rd largest startup ecosystem and has seen three unicorn startups emerge in the last three years, I hope this will be an opportunity."
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