On the Scene Report / iPark Shanghai The most important gateway for Korean IT venture to the Chinese market iPark Shanghai, established in 2001, intends to be the most important gateway for Korean IT ventures seeking new markets in East and South China. East China, with Shanghai as the hub city of this area, is without doubt one of the most important economic areas of China (other two are the Zhujiang Delta and the Bohai area). It comprises the manufacturing center ( like Suzhou), service and finance center (like Shanghai), and the private economy center (like Wenzhou, Taizhou). Together with the rapid economic development, IT demand is soaring too. Therefore, there are many more business opportunities emerging in this region for Korean IT ventures. With the big local MC database, high awareness in Chinese IT industry, and sincere service attitude to KV, iParkshanghai will provide the most efficient and comprehensive support to small and medium size of Korean IT company. iPark Shanghai's support for the localization of Korean IT enterprises iPark Shanghai provides the following support services: * Incubator service. After passing the evaluation from the local IT expert and KIPA, the appliance company can enjoy the facility, tax, law, and labor policy consultant service at a very low cost. TheKorean IT association. iParkshanghai co-hosted Korean IT association of East China with over 80 members. The association holds monthly seminars covering the hottest topics for all the members. Moreover, the members can get sincere help from the association, in term of taxes, law, human resource consultant service. It is the home for Korean company. * E-newsletter. Every Tuesday, iPark Shanghai will send Enews letter edited by itself, covering the hottest Sino-Korea IT news and government policy, to over 300 Korean companies. * 1:1 Support. After receiving a request from a Korean company, iPark Shanghai identifies the requirement and then provides 1:1 support, like giving market information, strategy consultant and introduction of market channel. In some case, on the basis of local market trends and demand, iPark Shanghai positively chooses KV and introduces it to the local market. * Global marketing. Every year, iPark Shanghai holds several seminars and 1:1 match meetings about the hottest points of the IT industry, like online game, 3G, VC. Korean's IT industry publicity support plan iPark Shanghai positively attends IT seminars and exhibition and makes speeches promoting Korean IT industry. Cooperation has been established with government agencies, associations and science clusters by MOU. G2G support is provided in alliance with other international organizations like the World Bank and iPark Shanghai identifies potential large SI projects from local governments and signs cooperation MOUs for the projects. Then iPark Shanghai arranges for a Korean expert team to make a feasibility study for this project. Korea IT news is published. covering technology and trends in the different media, like the Internet, newspapers and magazines. Cooperation relation with relevant organizations on the scene. Cooperation is established with relevant organizations, like Zhangjiang High-tech group, Nanjing Science bureau, Shanghai software association and so on by MOU. Seminars are attended and events organized by relevant organizations, seminars are jointly hosted and they are invited to attend relevant Korean events.