South Korea’s Incheon turns city infrastructure into startup testbed, hosts festival to highlight unicorn pipeline

The Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) Authority opened its Boom-up Festival 2025 on October 28, 2025, at Start-up Park Incheon, positioning the city as a national launchpad for unicorn-caliber startups under the slogan “Beyond Limits, Toward Unicorns.”