Mong-joon Chung, Honorary Chairman of Asan Nanum Foundation, spoke at beLAUNCH 2013 on the entrepreneurial roots of the Hyundai group and the importance of startups for the Korean economy. Asan Nanum Foundation was set up by the Hyundai group to encourage entrepreneurship in Korea among other things. Mong-joon also spoke about the role entrepreneurs have played in the post Korean war industrial growth in the country. Mong-joon Chung shared the story of…

This year beLAUNCH organized an Indian edition to enable startups from India interested in entering the Korean/East Asian market. We are delighted to announce the winner of beLAUNCH India edition – Bangalore headquartered UMobile. A panel comprising of VCs and industry experts in Korea have chosen the winner from the 65 startups from India that applied. Palo Alto headquartered company Cooliris has supported the participation of the beLAUNCH India winner at beLAUNCH…

Cooliris today announced the release of the new Cooliris mobile app which offers endless discovery of friends’ and followers’ photos, and adds Dropbox to the portfolio of media sources users can seamlessly explore from the app. Cooliris has already integrated the mobile library, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, Google+/Picasa, Twitter, SmugMug, Google Drive, Google Images, Yandex.Fotki in Russia, and Renren in China. Cooliris, which has reached the #1 iPad app in 75 countries for…