Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju "Achieve Successful Startups at Subscription Offices"

Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, has launched a new challenge for aspiring entrepreneurs at the nation’s first-ever ‘Gwangsan-type Subscription Office’.

On the 4th, Gwangsan-gu announced that five teams, including one-person startup companies and prospective entrepreneurs, have completed moving into the first ‘Gwangsan-type Subscription Office’ opened last December at the Gwangsan-gu Regional Economic Vitality Center.

The Gwangsan-type Subscription Office is the second connected innovation project of the ‘Danggeun Gwangsan (Dangsin Geuncheo-ui Gwangsan) Project,’ which Gwangsan-gu is promoting in collaboration with ‘Danggeun,’ a leading domestic regional-based private platform, for the first time nationwide.

Using the ‘Danggeun’ app, it connects citizens with spatial information in Gwangsan-gu, allowing citizens to ‘subscribe’ to public facility idle spaces as needed, when needed.

The first branch, located at the Gwangsan-gu Regional Economic Vitality Center, is an ‘in-residence’ type, where five startup teams selected through recruitment at the end of last year have settled in.

These include a young entrepreneur challenging a new Korean food business combined with online marketing, a prospective entrepreneur developing and selling commemorative products linked to character and media content, and citizens dreaming of establishing a company to support business participation for women with career interruptions.

They plan to concretize and execute their business plans conceived at the ‘Gwangsan-type Subscription Office’ and take steps toward their respective goals.

The Gwangsan-gu Regional Economic Vitality Center, where the first Gwangsan-type Subscription Office is located, and the nearby Gwangsan-gu Enterprise Doctor Center provide professional advice and customized education related to business operation and startups, which is expected to support the activities of the resident startup teams.

A young resident entrepreneur who is challenging a one-person startup aiming to become an e-commerce-based kitchenware brand said, “After moving around coffee shops and private shared offices, I moved into the Gwangsan-type Subscription Office on a friend’s recommendation. I was surprised by the low cost burden, comfortable space, and many benefits,” adding, “I hope more spaces like this for prospective entrepreneurs will be created.”

The rental-type Gwangsan-type Subscription Offices 2 to 4 also began operations on the 2nd. The rental-type spaces were established at three locations: Gwangsan Sharing Center, Sochon Art Factory, and Wolgok 2-dong Administrative Welfare Center.

Any citizen who needs space for meetings, gatherings, or club activities can use these spaces. Reservations can be made through the location introduction section (profile) in the banner ad at the top of ‘Near Me’ within the Danggeun app.

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.