Busan Startup Culture Festival Revived with Online System

November 7, 1 PM?6 PM Startup Product Exhibition & Sale, Startup Special Lecture & Concert
Song Sang-hyun Square Sunken Plaza, Startup Cafe Pukyong National University Branch, Sasang Station Branch Simultaneously

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Busan Startup Cafe, which faced temporary closure and suspension of operations due to COVID-19, is being revived with the introduction of an online non-face-to-face system.

Busan City will simultaneously hold the '2020 Busan Startup Culture Festival' at three startup cafes from 1 PM to 6 PM on November 7, signaling a new leap forward.

The three startup cafes hosting the event are the Song Sang-hyun Square branch, the first Busan Startup Cafe, centered around the sunken plaza at Song Sang-hyun Square, along with the Pukyong National University branch and Sasang Station branch.

At the sunken plaza, there will be booths exhibiting and selling startup company products, as well as experience booths where visitors can try 3D printing, calligraphy, and handmade product creation.

On the outdoor stage, special lectures by successful entrepreneurs and talk concerts will be held. These lectures and talk concerts will be broadcast live to the Pukyong National University and Sasang Station branches, and online comment participation will be open to citizens visiting the startup cafes. People can participate in real-time even without visiting the venue.

At the Pukyong National University and Sasang Station branches, one-on-one consulting sessions with pre-registered startup companies and experts will take place. The Pukyong National University branch will also host networking events involving watching startup-related films followed by discussions, case sharing, and information exchange.

The Busan Startup Cafe had to suspend face-to-face programs such as startup consulting and networking due to the spread of COVID-19 starting in February.

From the second half of the year, it has been operating with a minimal number of people while complying with quarantine rules. Meanwhile, the city has built an online education system (LMS), prepared flexible hybrid programs combining face-to-face and non-face-to-face formats, including networking and startup lectures using the video conferencing platform Zoom, and live broadcast content production using the startup promotion YouTube channel 'BstarTV.'

Byun Sung-wan, Acting Mayor of Busan, said, "We have appropriately balanced face-to-face and non-face-to-face programs for the Startup Culture Festival to widely promote the startup cafes that attempt to spread startup culture to citizens."

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