The Korea Exchange has launched its Korea Start-up Market, where equity shares of start-ups can be traded on the open market. Blocko, a Korean start-up, provided its blockchain technology to the project for document and identity authentication via its development platform called Coinstack. In addition, the government is also looking at ways to encourage more startups in South Korea. Blocko raised a series A round funding of $1.3 million from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation in July 2016. The start-up raised $1.3m in series A round funding from Samsung Venture Investment in July of this year.
The Korea Exchange has launched its Korea Start-up Market, where equity shares of start-ups can be traded on the open market. Blocko, a Korean start-up, provided its blockchain technology to the project for document and identity authentication via its development platform called Coinstack. In addition, the government is also looking at ways to encourage more startups in South Korea. The start-up raised $1.3m in series A round funding from Samsung Venture Investment in July of this year.