Seoul offers free offices to foreign entrepreneurs

The Seoul city government is offering free offices for six months and to provide incubation programs for foreign startups. / Captured from the Seoul Global Center website

By Kang Aa-young

The Seoul city government is offering free offices for six months and to provide incubation programs for foreign startups in Korea.

The program, run by the Seoul Global Center and the Seoul Business Agency, is accepting applications until June. 4.

It will give office space at three centers, in Jongno, Gangnam and Yeouido starting from July. 1.

Those selected may extend their stay once for six more months, depending on performance evaluation.

The center will provide quarterly business coaching, one-on-one mentoring with specialists in various fields as well as special lectures and meetings.

Candidates must be foreigners living in Korea and planning to register their proposed business in Seoul during the incubation period or who have started a business within the year before the application date.

For more information,

visit the Seoul Global Center website (global.seoul.go.kr)

or call 02-2075-4112.