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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 latest updates regarding the Korean Convenience mobile app.  New features include brand name search, meat, and drink filter, USD/Korean […]

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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 to over sixty countries, his love for travel and living the digital nomadic lifestyle was nonstop until the pandemic.   […]

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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 advertisements, and obtain downloads from the app you just created?  Here are the books I recommend to get started. […]

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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, nothing is beating the popularity of Korean movies, dramas, and variety shows. More people than ever are looking for […]

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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, and to business accelerators is a full-time job within itself.  If you’re working with limited resources, and no coding […]

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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 app.  The list below is taking into account that you’ve already created and published your website and built your […]

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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 have another dietary restriction, these tips will help you translate the product name, ingredients, and nutrition facts.  Bookmark these […]

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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, and I don’t have personal connections with any software developers.  Yet, I still wanted to develop my mobile application […]

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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 the startup space.  I responded to the email because less than a week prior I had completely failed an […]

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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 that focuses on selling socks tied to various community groups. In a similar space, Jason created Songtan Mugs, where […]