'2018 Seongnam Contents Crowdfunding World Conference' Opening on the 21st of August

    SEONGNAM, KOREA, August 04, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The 2018 Seongnam Contents Crowdfunding World Conference, which is hosted by Seongnam and run by the Seongnam Industry Promotion Agency, will be held on the 21st of August in the Seongnam Militopia Hotel grand ballroom and lobby.

This is an event to strengthen the capacity of businesses with potential, and startups and small and medium-sized venture companies with creative ideas will be given more opportunities to expand their businesses. Businesses in attendance of the conference will not only receive opportunities for business expansion through crowdfunding, but will also receive opportunities for promotion, marketing, and consulting from the media, both in Korea and abroad, and from crowdfunding experts.

The programs planned for the day start with special pitches from 10 selected companies in the morning, and the official opening ceremony and speech, speech from an invited guest, and presentations of introductions and cases of successful funding will take place in the afternoon.

The 1:1 media to press pitching will be held in the form of each company promoting content related companies in Seongnam to the media of Korea and overseas.

The invited media from Korea and abroad are as the following: △China_ China's first consumable IT internet portal 'YESKY' △Vietnam_ Vietnam's No. 1 multimedia group/ state-operated news agency 'VietnamPlus' △USA_ USA's representative IT media 'Ubergizmo' △Korea_ IT/ Game centered Media Channel Under Donga.com 'Game Donga'

The media mentioned above will evaluate the businesses after the 1:1 press pitching and businesses selected as excellent startups will receive opportunities for promotion and marketing from the respective media. This will be available if the business will enter the market through the media's network.

It is expected that the global crowdfunding platform company's case study presentation will provide useful information to both selected companies and all attendees. △Game Specialized Crowdfunding Channel 'Fig'(Presenter Jonathan Chan)_Company Introduction and Funding Case Study Presentation in the Game Category △Japan's No. 1 Crowdfunding Platform 'CAMPFIRE'(Presenter Ieiri Kazuma CEO)_Company Introduction and Cultural Content Funding Case Study Presentation △China's No. 1 Crowdfunding Platform 'JD'(Presenter Han Linlin General Manager) △Korea's No. 1 Crowdfunding Platform 'Wadiz'(Presenter Choi Dongchul Vice-President)_Company Introduction and Culture Content Funding in Korea Case Study Presentation

The platform companies mentioned above will sign an MOU with the Seongnam Industry Promotion Agency. In addition, 6 companies, the 3 companies set to present the case studies and the 3 crowdfunding consulting companies, KSEED, Intween, and WinnersLab, will operate the 1:1 crowdfunding consulting for the participants. They will meet a total of 20 companies, and the consulting time with each company will be 20 minutes.

Director Jang Byeonghwa of the Seongnam Industry Promotion Agency said that, "He hopes that, as a forum of free discussion and content, the conference will contribute to many participating companies," and that, "We will give emotional and material support in various aspects so that excellent companies in Korea will be able to expand into the global market."

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