Gangnam-gu holds ‘Start Track Week 2026’… Events such as Startup World Cup Korea

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jun-tae = Gangnam-gu announced on the 5th that it will hold 'Start Track Week 2026' in the Yeoksam-ro Entrepreneur Street area on the 8th.

This event is held in collaboration with POSCO Holdings and the Korea Angel Investment Association to discover promising companies and promote exchanges between entrepreneurs.

First, the ‘Gangnam Start Track Forum’ will be held at ChangeUpground Seoul.

A lecture will be held introducing strategies to increase efficiency and grow a company with a small number of people using AI.

‘Startup World Cup Korea’ will continue at the same location.

This is an event to select the Korean representative who will advance to the US finals of the 'Startup World Cup' hosted by Pegasus Tech Ventures, an American venture investment company.

More than 3,000 people, including global companies such as Apple and Netflix, and more than 500 investors, will participate in the US finals. The final winning team will be given an investment of $1 million (about 1.3 billion won) and global networking opportunities.

At the Gangnam Employment and Startup Hub Center, 'Startup Collaboration Matching Day', where startups introduce each other's technology and business and find possibilities for collaboration, and 'Gangnam Startup Forum', which points out the global AI investment flow, will be held.

Lectures for residents will also be held. At the Daechi 2-dong Cultural Complex, Professor Dennis Hong of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a world-renowned robotics engineer, will give a lecture on the topic of ‘Daily life and jobs that physical AI will change.’

More information can be found on the festival’s official website (starttrackweek.com).

District Mayor Kim Hyun-ki said, “I hope that it will be a place where start-ups can find growth strategies and opportunities to enter the global market in the AI ​​era, and where residents can meet robots and future technologies up close.”