“One-stop startup support center” opened in Seoul for “one-stop support for start-ups (one-stop)”

The Seoul Small and Medium Venture Business Administration (Chairman Kim Woo-sun, hereafter, Seoul Central Office) held the opening ceremony of the One-Stop Startup Support Center at the Seoul Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (Yongsan-gu, Seoul) on Monday, December 1, and announced that it has begun full-scale operation. The opening ceremony of the Startup One-Stop Support Center was held simultaneously online and offline at 17 creative economy innovation centers across the country to coincide with the launch ceremony of the 'Startup One-Stop Support Center' held in Pangyo, Gyeonggi. The opening ceremony of the Startup One-Stop Support Center was a place to establish a public-private partnership system for the national startup ecosystem and announce the start of “one-stop support” to resolve the concerns of founders in one place, and is a follow-up to the “New Government Startup and Venture Policy Vision” announced last September. The newly launched “Startup One-Stop Support Center” is an integrated window dedicated to founders that provides specialized advice necessary during the start-up process, such as legal affairs, taxation, patents, and labor, and provides integrated information on government start-up support projects. In order to establish the center, the Ministry of Finance has reflected the voices of the field through 10 startup meetings, and has formed an advisory committee of 1,600 people, including experts in each field, retirees from large companies, and successful senior entrepreneurs in cooperation with private associations. CEO Nota Chae Myung-soo, who is participating as a mentor at the center, sympathized with the difficulties he experienced firsthand and stated his ambition to “go beyond simple advice and honestly share field experiences and failures as a senior entrepreneur to help junior entrepreneurs grow.” On this day, the Ministry of Finance signed a business agreement (MOU) with major private associations, and private partners through the center plan to provide practical support to founders by linking and sharing service infrastructure such as legal support, mentoring, investment links, and global expansion owned by each organization. Kim Woo-soon, Chairman of the Seoul Central Office, said, “The government and private sector have built together so that founders can solve problems in 'one place',” and emphasized that “the one-stop support center will lower the threshold of administrative and support procedures required by founders and be a strong supporter to help solve problems.”