Nations should become more open and transparent — China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore are all starting to recover from the COVID-19 outbreak. Although Singapore has recently gone into lockdown and experienced a surge in new cases, we anticipate that authorities there will get the new outbreak under control. …

This Lunar New Year is the year of the pig. More specifically, it is an “Earth Pig” year and called by some as the Golden Pig year, which supposedly comes every sixty years. …

(originally published in the Maeil Business Newspaper, which is South Korea’s WSJ, where SparkLabs’ has a monthly column) While catching up with Dino Ha, Co-founder and CEO of Memebox, this week, I was reminded of why we accepted him into our first accelerator batch back in November 2012 when we…

(originally published in The Chosun Daily, which is South Korea’s largest newspaper, where I have a monthly column) Since I co-founded SparkLabs Korea, our first accelerator, with HanJoo Lee and Jimmy Kim in Seoul back in 2012, we have carefully expanded our accelerators across Asia to Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong…

We just announced SparkLabs Cyber + Blockchain with some good coverage here, here, here, and our official press release is here. Now to provide further details and background information. SparkLabs Group (www.sparklabsgroup.com) has invested in over 200 companies across 6 continents through our accelerators and venture capital funds. …

(originally published in VentureBeat on July 14, 2018 as “Why South Korea is ‘crypto crazy’ and what that means for the rest of the world”) South Korea is truly crypto crazy. While the country has less than 1 percent of the world’s population, estimates indicate it is responsible for 30…