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jungwook lim
Deputy Minister
The Ministry of SMEs and Startups, The Republic of Korea
Jungwook Lim is the deputy minister of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in the Republic of Korea. His role in the Korean government is promoting entrepreneurship, supporting tech startups and venture capital industry, and providing R&D programs for SMEs and startups.
Prior to joining the government, he was the managing partner of TBT, venture capital which focuses on early stage startup investment. He has also worked as a managing director of Startup Alliance Korea, a non-profit organization founded in 2013 to foster the Korean startup ecosystem by connecting entrepreneurs, startups, tech companies, and the government.
Jungwook spent time working in Silicon Valley and Boston where he was the head of global business for Daum USA in San Jose, CA and the CEO of Lycos Inc in Waltham, MA.
Before his career as an internet executive, he was a newspaper journalist in Korea. We worked at Chosun Ilbo, Korea’s largest newspaper for almost 10 years. While there, he covered Korea’s IT industry as a business writer.
He is also a well known blogger and influential Twitterer in Korea who has over 400k Twitter followers. His columns frequently appear in various newspapers and magazines in Korea.
Jungwook holds an MBA degree from the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and earned a B.A. in Business Administration from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.
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