CE Update || The Pyongsong Startup Festival

CE Update || The Pyongsong Startup Festival

At Choson Exchange, we are excited when we work with motivated entrepreneurs in North Korea with great ideas they would like to see become startups someday. Our programs all educate and support local entrepreneurs, but it is the coming-together of ideas, pitches and products at our Pyongsong Startup Bootcamp that brings out this excitement and sense of accomplishment.

We plan to take that sense of accomplishment a notch higher by transforming our upcoming November workshop into the inaugural Pyongsong Startup Festival. This isn’t just a branding exercise — we expect a bigger, better and more exciting workshop experience this year.

Inter-Korea Economic Cooperation after the Moon-Kim Summit in Pyongyang

Inter-Korea Economic Cooperation after the Moon-Kim Summit in Pyongyang

During the 5th Inter-Korean Summit, which was held from 18th to 20th September in the DPRK capital of Pyongyang, the scope of issues discussed and agreed upon between South Korea and North Korea had noticeably expanded beyond familiar humanitarian and security concerns to include bilateral and regional projects intended to foster stronger inter-Korean economic and business links.

Our colleague Tian Wen provides the following analysis of potential avenues for economic and business collaboration between the two Koreas.