Restaurant Reviews, Travel Stories, Business Interviews, and More!
Welcome the supplemental blog to the Korean Convenience free allergy friendly app. Here we add more about our experience – whether we’re talking about restaurants reviews, travel stories, business interviews, personal stories, or anything else related to small business and food allergies.
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Food Safety While Buying Korean Products
Recycling and Composting Korean Food With Food Allergies What I bought at the Korean Convenience Store is a popular trend these days on TikiTok and Youtube. People love watching shoppers go into the Korean convenience store…
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One Year App Anniversary
Celebrate with us! The Korean Convenience App 1-Year Anniversary January 10, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary that I launched The Korean Convenience app. It’s a huge milestone in a product like the Korean Convenience app and…
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Food Allergy Resources
Management And Safety Tips Here is a list of organizations dedicated to helping you learn about managing your food allergies and intolerances. American Academy of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology (AAAAI) The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma…
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Allergy-Friendly App Updates
Get the latest happenings! New Features Announcement: Save time and find more product details. Adding more prepackaged label information all in one place. We listened to your initial feedback and made some updates. Here are the…
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Food Allergy and Asthma Awareness
Donate Or Volunteer Opportunities It’s Food Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month! Each time we speak up for ourselves, our friends, our family, or our kids, we raise awareness. If you would like to donate to the…
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How I Started A Business In South Korea
Small Business Interview Highlight This guest post is written by Richard, a small business owner who moved to South Korea to teach English to adults. Eventually, he shifted to opening a successful translation company. Having traveled…
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Save Time And Find New Products
Features And Benefits Of The App If you love Korean food then you know that it sometimes can be difficult to read ready-made products. Add an allergy or dietary restriction into the mix were reading every…
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2021: Year In Review
Mobile App, Korean Studies and Travel I enjoy looking back to reflect. I want to recap recent blog posts, along with some milestones, and my personal achievements. One of my biggest personal accomplishments this year is…
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Get Snacks From South Korea
Favorite Korean Snacks With the massive popularity of Squid Games this year, South Korea’s food and snacks have been on full display. However, Dalgona is not the only candy or snack that’s fun to eat and…
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Best Books For Non-Tech Founders
A Reading List For Non-Tech Founders While it’s essential to know how your mobile app works (wireframe outline), you also need to know what to do after you’ve created your layout. How do you market, sell…
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Where To Buy Korean Food
Online And Retail Grocery Stores Shopping online for Korean snacks and drinks has never been easier than it’s right now. Bulgogi has been added to the Oxford dictionary as well as several K-pop terms. However,…
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5 Tips For Working With Freelancers
Tips To Maximize Project Efficiency Outsourcing to freelancers can help save you time, and money. If you’re a one-women led business like mine, and launching a mobile application then you have endless tasks. Applying for grants,…
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Disneyland Vacation Experience
3 Days & 2 Night Staycation Recently, my family visited Disneyland California Resort and a nearby Fairfield Inn Marriott for a mini-staycation. There have been a number of changes since I last visited Disneyland. Here are…
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Mobile App Development Costs
Unexpected Charges Of Building An App I was prepared to pay a set price to develop and publish my mobile application. However, I was not aware of the additional costs that came along with publishing the…
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Giving Back To The Community
Show Appreciation With A Gift Or Donation With the holidays in full swing, I feel especially grateful this year. Grateful for the community of entrepreneurs, and travelers who provide inspiration every day. Grateful to the creators…
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How To Read Korean Food Labels
Tips For Identifying Nutritional Information Food labels are already difficult to understand and add in another language and it can become an almost impossible task. Whether you’re looking for one of the major top allergens or…
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Advice From A Non-Technical Founder
Document, Timeline & Communication Method As an African American entrepreneur I have my fair share of challenges if I want to build a mobile application. For starters I can’t code, I don’t have a technical co-founder,…
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Season Greetings & Happy New Year
2020 Year In Review Dear Subscribers and Readers, It’s certainly been an interesting year, and I’d like to thank you for your engagement, and participation throughout 2020. Yes, it’s been a tough year, between the pandemic,…
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Let’s Care Podcast Interview
One-on-One Talking with Matt Scott A notice was sent out to the Seed Spot Entrepreneurs to discuss their entrepreneurial experience this year. It was a call for individuals who often don’t feel heard or seen in…
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Black Business Owner In Korea Interview
Cultural Strides Abroad Jason Holmes is a black-owned business owner who founded the online business Kimchi Socks LLC based out of America and here in South Korea, Songtan Mugs. Kimchi Socks LLC is an accessories brand…
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Escapism Amid Pandemic
Stay Safe, Stay Home Playlist Instead of blogging about business topics or what I’ve learned during a recent webinar or conference. I want to share what videos I have been watching when I need a good…
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Product Marketing Amidst Covid-19
Marketing Strategies In The “New Normal” Recently, I attended the TechInAsia PDC ‘20 virtual Product Development Conference. This four-day virtual conference took place on July 1-2nd (Indonesia Series) and the 8-9th (Regional Series) via Asia/Singapore timezone. …
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7 Tips for Applying To An Accelerator
Necessary Preparations To Apply The last three months I have been applying to business accelerators. Since I’m trying my best to adhere to the stay in place order I now have more time to share what…
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How To Create Products Customers Want
Customer Discovery Process Before I spend money on developing my mobile application I’ve been advised to find out what customers want. Reading various business articles many advisors believe this is a crucial first step. Customer Development…
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Overseas Venture Capitalist Investors
How To Find Startup Funding So you want to start a business in Asia? Starting a business is hard wherever you’re located. Add starting a business overseas to your to-do list and it seems like one…
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How I Chose A Technical Bootcamp
Product Development Process CAD & CAM Training Recently, I’ve been apart of the first APC Fellowship organized by (LACI) or the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator. Their mission states: “LACI is building a more diverse and inclusive…
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Korean Convenience Store Lessons
AS CONVENIENT AS POSSIBLE Recently, there have been some questions as to why I suddenly posted a product vocabulary list written in Hangul and English. I want to share the reason why I created this list…
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Entrepreneur Korea Interview
Part of my ongoing effort to keep up to date on events occurring in South Korea, I joined Entrepreneurs In Seoul Facebook group. Tony is another member within the group and he recently launched a new…
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Big Rice Korean Cuisine Review
Bulgogi Lunch Box Spring was in the air as I walked around the Descanso Gardens. The gardens were filled with happy children waiting to ride the mini train. Touring the colorful tulip beds, rose and lilac…
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A Platform For Entrepreneurs: Seoul Startups
Seoul Startups Informational Interview In my continuous search to connect and highlight entrepreneurs involved in the startup scene in South Korea, I was referred to Seoul Startups. Seoul Startups is administered by Marta, a native from…
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