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Seoul Startups
Seoul Startups is a community in Seoul that connects expats and locals, focusing on entrepreneurship and integration into the Korean market. It offers networking meetups, mentorship programs, and workshops to strengthen the startup ecosystem.
Overview
What Seoul Startups does
What Seoul Startups is
Seoul Startups is a community in Seoul that connects expats and locals, focusing on entrepreneurship and integration into the Korean market. It offers networking meetups, mentorship programs, and workshops to strengthen the startup ecosystem.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community and event host capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2017
- Approximate age
- About 9 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community · Event host
- Last reviewed
- March 31, 2026
Official channels
Find Seoul Startups elsewhere
Open the official website or a supported primary organization account.
Capability profile
Seoul Startups as a community
Community overview
Seoul Startups is an English-speaking startup community based in Seoul, South Korea. It was established to support both expats and Koreans, focusing on designers, developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs. The organization aims to foster a stronger entrepreneurial ecosystem through community events and activities, discussions on ideas, work culture, and integration into the Korean market.
Community focus
Seoul Startups provides various services including global networking meetups, mentorship programs, workshops on doing business in Korea and scaling startups globally, and startup event promotion. They are also preparing a database of the Korean startup ecosystem.
Member value
Members benefit from networking opportunities, mentorship, and resources to navigate the Korean market and scale their startups globally.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students · Operators
- Benefits
- mentorship and network-access
- Program types
- community
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- Asia
Community activity
Events and activity
The community organizes global networking meetups and workshops focused on doing business in Korea.
Capability profile
Seoul Startups as an event host
Event focus
Seoul Startups is dedicated to supporting both expats and Koreans in the startup ecosystem. They focus on designers, developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs, aiming to foster a stronger entrepreneurial environment through community events, discussions on ideas, work culture, and integration into the Korean market.
Format narrative
The organization hosts global networking meetups, mentorship programs, workshops on doing business in Korea, and promotes various startup events.
Participant value
Seoul Startups provides valuable resources and networking opportunities for individuals looking to thrive in the Korean startup ecosystem.
Format and cadence
- Event types
- meetup and workshop
- Startups can present
- No
Availability
- Registration state
- Not currently accepting
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Students · Corporate Innovators
- Regions
- Asia
Common questions
What to know about Seoul Startups
Upseed classifies Seoul Startups under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community and event host capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
March 31, 2026
Known limits
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