Troasis, a transport related SNS (social network service) won two million Korean won in encouragement at the Seoul Startup Weekend. A game application project named Micasa and Quicket, a project involving sales and search optimization also took home encouragement in the form of one million and five hundred thousand won, respectively.

The first Startup Weekend Seoul was hosted in the NHN learning center in Bundang on the 28th to the 30th May 2010. One of the mentors of the event stated that, 'the mechanics of the event is that is a three day event to stimulate the economy.' The team members at the event pay a fee to be there and they are assumed to be more committed as a consequence, though the event was also said to be a lot much more. The event gives people who want to be a part of a team the opportunity to join and, 'test ideas with no risk.' One of the main goals of the event is to develop networks and it was said that many people were there, 'talent scouting.'
On Sunday evening, the Startup Weekend participants were finally ready to present their concepts and prototypes. Cu there, a utility, a shopping venture, Active Story Teller, an ibook; sweet meal, a donation mechanism for underprivileged; Micasa, a game; Quicket, secondhand goods sales with optimized search; Skill Tree, an SNS to help to network to develop skills; Troasis and Voccacio a mobile phone education application, all presented before a crowd of professionals, venture capitalists from abroad and within Korea, industry leaders and press.
Read more about the venture projects belonging to established attendants here: http://goapseoul.blogspot.com/
Startup Weekend Seoul: http://seoul.startupweekend.org/