The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said on the 29th it will open the "Online Startup One-Stop Support Center" on the 30th, providing management, legal, and investment counseling for prospective founders and startup corporations in one place.
The online center is an integrated startup counseling window built following the offline one-stop support centers installed at 17 Centers for Creative Economy and Innovation nationwide in Dec. last year. It allows startup corporations to access counseling and policy information without time or location constraints.
Since its launch, the offline centers handled about 7,600 counseling cases over four months in areas including law, tax, management, and marketing. Of these, 93% were resolved on the day of consultation. Of users, 86.6% were prospective founders and early corporations within three years of founding.
The online center provides tailored counseling by consolidation with more than 2,000 experts across nine fields, including law, tax and accounting, investment attraction, marketing, and overseas expansion. General inquiries are processed within an average of three days.
If in-depth advice is needed, such as legal review or conversion to a corporation, it also supports expert advisory expense up to 3 million won per corporation per year.
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) plans to build an integrated support system linking the "Startup Platform for All," unveiled on the 25th, with the online one-stop support center, connecting startup counseling through participation in policy support programs.
Minister Han Seong-sook of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) said, "We have established a single counseling system so founders do not have to visit multiple institutions."