TSM Journey Days 2-3

And the company visits continue with startups Ideabove, VCNC, Memebox and Flitto!

Day 2 started off with a visit to Ideabove which develops a social music app called swizzle.fm that would enable people to network through their common love of music to share and discover music.

Ian, the founder of Ideabove

The Ideabove team!

Ian, the founder of Ideabove and his team blew us away with their enthusiasm and readily shared many of their ideas and experiences with us and even introducing us to My Real Trip, another startup situated in the same building and whom were under the same acceleration program.

Ms Minseo, CSO of My Real Trip

After the company visit, its off to more food as we went for some barbecued pork!

mmm….pork….

Some fan service from our TSM girls after lunch 😉

And of course, we couldn’t go a day without shopping in Seoul so we went to Ewah Womans University for some much needed retail therapy before we ended our day by watching Jump, a comic martial arts performance, but not before we grabbed some dinner and dessert in the form of Korea’s famous live octopus (check out the video here)!

Ewha Womens University (yes guys, an ALL WOMENS university)

Skincare products, haircuts and 10,000 won backpacks galore

Dinner at the restaurant opposite the jump theater

Live octopus for dessert!

After the highs of Day 2 we finished the last of our Korean company visits with VCNC, Memebox and Flitto!

Our first visit of the day was to VCNC, the company behind the widely popular couple’s app Between which has grown considerably since our last TSM visit!

Learning all about Between

VCNC’s code of conduct staring their very own cartoons

Next up was Memebox, an online beauty brand that assembles beauty boxes consisting of products from Korea’s leading beauty companies. Although it was a busy day for them, they welcomed us into their office and shared a lot with us about their business model and best-selling Memeboxes.

Taking a short walk before our visit to Memebox…

which led us to a plastic surgery clinic (we decided to do some free advertising for the clinic)

Memebox’s office

Listening intently and taking notes while Ms Wonshin shares with us

With that, we headed down to the trendy Gangnam District for our final Korean company visit to Flitto, language translation platform that harnesses the power of crowdsourcing to perform translations! We were first treated to a tour around the newly built Maru180 which Flitto is housed at and were well entertained by Mr Simon Lee, the founder of Flitto during their presentation.

The minimalist cafe at Maru180

Getting a tour around the building and offices

Lots of snacks courtesy of Flitto for our ravenous group!

Getting ready for Flitto’s presentation!

Trying out Flitto’s mobile app

A shot with Mr Simon Lee, founder of Flitto

With all the Korean company visits behind us, our hungry hungry class arrived at Chilryang Korean Restaurant and Pottery Shop to feast on a traditional Korean king’s dinner, where the courses were plenty and we ate til we couldn’t, rounding off an awesome day of company visits!