On October 21, 38 of Korea's most promising startups will pitch their innovative businesses in front of representatives from eight top global accelerators, and a live audience of hundreds at the second annual K-Global Startup Engine Demo Day, held at the Renaissance Hotel in Seoul.

​Korea's National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA) has selected 40 high performing startups to participate in a pre-acceleration programme that will prepare startups for global success and ultimately aims to place many of the finalists into global accelerators including Techstars, 500 Startups, Seedcamp, HAX, Chinaccelerator, Startup Bootcamp, Alchemist and Open Network Lab.