BeLAUNCH Now Open to Indian Startups, and Readers Can Get Discounts for the Seoul Event

It’s only about seven weeks until the globally-minded Korean startup conference beLAUNCH takes place in Seoul on May 1 and 2. But there’s still time for readers to nab tickets and startups to apply to pitch onstage. Good news for startups in India is that beLAUNCH is now taking applications from Indian startups who want to expand and increase their reach in Korea and East Asia.

Indian startups need to apply before March 20 on this page; then some will be chosen for an audition-pitch in Bangalore in late March, and then one will win a place in the 20 presenting startups at beLAUNCH 2013. It’s an exciting chance.

Discounts for Seoul and Beijing

As for tickets for the beLAUNCH conference in Seoul, TechinAsia readers can now get a 30 percent discount for the May event using the promo code beLAUNCHTIA on this page.

Aside from the startup pitching contest at beLAUNCH, there’ll be an array of keynote speakers and panelists, such as 500 Startups’ Christine Tsai, Evernote’s Phil Libin, and GREE’s John S. Kim. Throwing in some chaos will be a few startup media bloggers such as our own Willis Wee, and SGE’s Gwendolyn Regina T.

As noted by our friends at GWC, the beLAUNCH event on May 1 to 2 is a perfect complement to the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing on May 7 to 8. So if you’re flying into the region for one of those events, you might as well go to both. We even have a 25 percent discount for our readers for GMIC, so there’s even more incentive to come to Beijing as well.