'2025 Glocal Festa' Brings Together Local Creators and the Public Nationwide

Held in the Eunhaeng-dong, Daeheung-dong, and Seonhwa-dong areas of Daejeon

The Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Small Enterprise and Market Service announced that the "2025 Glocal Festa" will be held for three days, from November 13 to 15, in the Eunhaeng-dong, Daeheung-dong, and Seonhwa-dong areas of Daejeon.

This year's Glocal Festa will take place in Eunhaeng-dong, Daeheung-dong, and Seonhwa-dong, which have been selected as the 2025 Glocal Commercial Districts. The event aims to connect local creators with regional culture and invites participation from people across the country. At the Glocal Festa, local creators from all over Korea will gather to share their achievements, exhibit and sell their products, and seek investment opportunities. The event will also feature commercial district tours and cultural performances, offering a variety of enjoyable activities for both local creators and the general public.

Sung-Hyo Park, Chairman of the Small Enterprise and Market Service, is delivering the opening address at the "2025 Glocal Festa." Small Enterprise and Market Service

The event will be organized into themed zones: Pitching Zone, Networking Zone, Popup Zone, Local University Zone, and Investment Zone, allowing visitors to fully experience the Eunhaeng-dong, Daeheung-dong, and Seonhwa-dong areas. In the Pitching Zone, there will be open pitching competitions to select outstanding local creators and new business startups, as well as spaces to view the products of participating companies. The Networking Zone will feature talk shows where participants can learn from the experiences of established businesses and a Korea-Japan Global Conference to share innovation cases between the two countries.

In the Popup Zone, visitors can explore a policy promotion center focused on local initiatives and a collaborative popup store where local creators from across Korea display and sell products developed in partnership with Daejeon small business owners and companies supported by the Rural Development Administration. The Local University Zone will host achievement-sharing sessions where universities specializing in local content present their results and showcase outstanding startup ideas. In the Investment Zone, there will be one-on-one investment mentoring sessions, including private investment-linked matching loans, to promote investment among small business owners and support their growth into entrepreneurial small business leaders (Lycon).

Park Sunghyo, Chairman of the Small Enterprise and Market Service, stated, "To revitalize a city, the first step is to revive its commercial districts," and added, "By collaborating with local creators who are leading the revitalization of the local economy with unique regional content, we will create new vitality for local commercial areas."

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