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Seoul Declaration
of the Sharing City
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Establishment of foundations
to create ‘Sharing city, Seoul’
∙ Preparation of laws and systems
to promote sharing
∙ Establishment of a policy execution body
under private-public governance
∙ Opening of the online sharing
information portal
∙ Seoul, promoter of the sharing economy
∙ Installation of an information exchange
window with the world
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4. ‘Sharing city, Seoul’ Future tasks of ‘Sharing city, Seoul’
∙ Sharing of space
- Sharing of idle public facilities
- Sharing of parking lots
- ‘Room sharing between the generations’
- Sharing of private companies’ spaces
∙ Sharing of items
- Book sharing
- Tool and toy library
- Samgaenaru Good Neighbor Sharing Market
(Exemplary case of a self- governing borough)
- Sharing of private companies’ items
∙ Sharing of experience and information
- Seoul Open Data Plaza
- Seoul Photo Bank
- Sharing of private companies’ experience
and information
∙ Preparation of a system for the establishment
of sharing economic ecology
∙ widespread adoption of the sharing economy
by citizens through interface with villages
∙ Promotion of sharing companies
Chart of affiliated domestic sharing
companies and organizations
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5. Seoul
Declaration
of the Sharing City
There is a way of consuming without
possessing. The solution is the ‘sharing
economy’. The concept of the sharing
economy first attracted attention during
the global financial crisis of 2008. The
sharing economy allows the maintenance
of a similar level of consumption
while reducing family expenditures.
Furthermore, many people have paid
close attention to the advantages
offered by this system, which facilitates
communication within communities and
prevents the wasting of resources during
the consumption process.
Seoul is promoting a revolution. The city
declared itself a ‘Sharing City’ for the
first time in September 2012 and began
applying the concept of the sharing
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economy to its urban policies.
In fact, sharing is not unfamiliar to
the people of Seoul. There used to
be widespread traditional cultures
of sharing in Korea, called poomasi
and dure, which mean ‘exchange of
labor’ and ‘farmers’ cooperative group,’
respectively. At one time, we used to
share labor, objects and food among
neighbors. Moreover, Seoul is well
equipped with the IT infrastructure
needed to vitalize the sharing economy.
The city prides itself in having the world’s
most convenient Internet, smartphone,
and SNS use. Based on these measures,
Seoul is carrying out diverse activities to
promote the sharing economy.

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7. Establishment
of foundations
to create
‘Sharing City
Seoul’
Seoul’s goal is to establish an ecology in which the sharing economy can grow
autogenously. First, in order to lay solid ‘Sharing city, Seoul’ has been working on the
following measures:
➊ Preparation of laws and systems to promote sharing
➋ Establishment of a policy execution body under private-public governance
➌ Opening of an online sharing information portal (SHARE HUB)
➍ Seoul, promoter of the sharing economy
➎ Installation of an information exchange window with the world
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Preparation of laws and
systems to promote sharing
After Seoul Declaration of the ‘Sharing City’
in September 2012, The city’s first action
was to enact the ‘Seoul Metropolitan
City Sharing Promotion Ordinance’ on
December 31, 2012.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government
collected opinions from sharing activists
through public hearings.
The newly enacted ordinance dictates
that the city must support the vitalization
of sharing not only in the public sector,
but also in the private sector. As such,
the city acknowledges companies or
organizations that attempt to resolve social
problems through sharing, designates
them as ‘sharing companies’ (or ‘sharing
organizations’) and supports them. Seoul’s
public assurance helps the settlement of
startup companies.

9. Establishment of foundations to create “Sharing city, Seoul”
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Establishment of a policy execution
body under private-public
governance
Seoul’s Sharing City policy is being
implemented based on cooperation
between the private and public sectors.
In order to promote smooth private-public
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cooperation, the city established
the Sharing Promotion Committee in
February 2013 and is currently managing
it. The committee is composed of fifteen
members including twelve private experts.
The private experts are drawn from the
IT, CSR, and social innovation fields, while
the remaining three members include a
city councilor and officials. The committee
deliberates on the selection of ‘sharing
companies’ and suggests diverse opinions
on business operation.
In this sense, Seoul’s sharing policy is a
private-public governance model rather
than a top-down model.

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Opening of an online sharing
information portal
(SHARE HUB)
SHARE HUB (sharehub.kr) is a portal
website designed for the sharing of
information. The website is the most
convenient gate to the ‘Sharing Seoul’
for citizens. The Seoul Metropolitan
Government opened the SHARE HUB in
June 2013. The SHARE HUB introduces
the activities of domestic and overseas
sharing organizations and companies and
introduces Seoul’s sharing activities to
other countries. Furthermore, the SHARE
HUB supports networking with sharing-related
companies and organizations, etc.
Website management is conducted by
private-public cooperation. The actual
management of the website is conducted
by a private organization called CC Korea.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government
provides administrative and financial
support for management, and engages
in collaboration with diverse fields such as
the advertising of sharing business.

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Seoul, promoter
of the sharing economy
The Seoul Metropolitan Government is a
major promoter of the sharing economy.
Although the city is not directly involved
with the actual management of sharing
companies, it helps startup companies to
successfully establish themselves in the
market. An example is Seoul’s operation
of the ‘Sharing Economy Startup School.’
It is a learning experience for those who
wish to start their companies based on
the sharing economy.This program helps
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prospective entrepreneurs to inspect
their business items and solve problems
through mentoring with civilian experts
or senior entrepreneurs. The goal is to
support entrepreneurial activities that
utilize the sharing economy.
After the establishment of a business,
the city continues communication and
cooperation in order to promote the
successful settlement and enhanced
autonomy of startup companies.

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Installation of an information
exchange window with the world
Seoul is very interested in international
exchanges aimed at vitalizing the sharing
economy. International exchanges allow
Seoul to announce the achievements
of ‘Sharing city, Seoul’ and to learn from
excellent or exemplary cases from overseas.
To that end, the Seoul Metropolitan
Government operates the Sharing Economy
Advisory Group. The Sharing Economy
Advisory Group is currently composed of
Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb; Rachel
Rotsman, director of Collaborative Lab; April
Rinne, CSO of Collaborative Lab; Herald
Heinrichs, professor of Lüneburg University;
and Neal Gorenflo, co-founder of Shareable.
In the future, the Seoul Metropolitan
Government plans to meet with the Sharing
Economy Advisory Group on a periodic
basis to gather information on overseas
sharing economy trends and receive
consultation on Seoul’s Sharing City policy.

13. Sharing
City
Seoul
Sharing space
We can use limited space effi ciently by sharing.
Seoul initiatively opened underused public space, and is putting all eff orts for sharing
space in private places such as parking lots, empty rooms, churches, etc.
Public Sector Private Sector
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➊ OnOff mix
➋ WOOZOO
➌ BnB Hero
➍ Kozaza
➎ Modu Company
➏ Sell Park
➊ Sharing public underused space
➋ Sharing parking space
➌ ‘Room Sharing between
the Generations’ (house sharing)
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Sharing of idle public faciliies
Seoul is actively committed to sharing public spaces. During times when public facilities
are not in use, such as weeknights and weekends, Seoul loans those spaces to citizens
free of charge or rents them out at low cost. Anyone can easily access the facilities using
the online reservation website(yeyak.seoul.go.kr). Residents conduct regular club
meetings in such spaces. Since April 2014, 970 spaces have been opened to the public,
and they have been used by members of the public on approximately 23,000 occasions.

15. Parking lot sharing
The construction of just one new parking lot in downtown Seoul requires a signifi cant
budget. However, sharing parking lots can solve parking problems without requiring
any budget input. The Seoul Metropolitan Government performs diverse activities
to promote the sharing of parking lots. In Yongsan-gu, resident parking lots are
shared with those who need them. In Songpa-gu, the city collaborates with sharing
companies to share parking information with citizens. Also, new measures have been
attempted in diff erent boroughs. In Jongno-gu, the parking lots of residential colleges
are available for sharing, while in Seongbuk-gu the parking lots of leased apartments
are shared with other residents.
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Sharing city, Seoul - Sharing of space

16. ‘Room sharing between the generations’ is a housing sharing project that connects two
generations. The basic goal is to connect young people in need of low-cost housing
with more senior citizens who have extra rooms due to their children’s departure for
marital or employment reasons, etc. Young people can help with house chores and
enjoy low rent in return. Elders can live in young people’s company and enjoy freedom
from social isolation. This system has attracted considerable attention as a solution
to both the problem of solitude facing many senior citizens and young people’s
housing difficulties. Currently, there are 28 young people residing in 23 houses with
elderly people in Nowon-gu and Gwangjin-gu. The system is now spreading to other
neighborhoods near colleges such as Seodaemun-gu.
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‘Room Sharing Between the Generations’

17. Sharing of private companies' spaces
Platform for sharing knowledge and contents
ONOFFMIX
ONOFFMIX is a platform that provides
spaces for events.The company not
only provides event information, but
also helps with the hosting of events.
When people hold an event, ONOFFMIX
provides diverse necessary services such
as participant management, venue rental,
and promotion to the organizer, thus
connecting online and offline services.
This service enables easy sharing of
knowledge and contents.
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Company Name ONOFFMIX
CEO Jooncheol Yang
Website www.onoffmix.com
ONOFFMIX has around 310,000 members,
and has hosted around 27,000 events,
attesting to a continuous growth trend.
The long-term goal of ONOFFMIX is to
create the best event business platform in
the world.
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Sharing house with those with similar hobbies and experiences
WOOZOO
WOOZOO is a company that creates
and provides shared houses. WOOZOO
supplies housing to students at low cost,
and helps residents share their hobbies
and experiences with one another.
When the founder saw students living in
confined spaces such as gosiwon(a tiny
one-room housing) due to their difficult
financial circumstances, he decided to
start WOOZOO to help them.
Although the company underwent many
Company Name Pjtok., Ltd.
CEO Jeongheon Kim
Website www.woozoo.kr
management difficulties at the beginning
due to a lack of awareness of the sharing
economy, WOOZOO now operates thirteen
‘shared houses’ in many parts of Seoul.

19. Sharing city, Seoul - Sharing of space
BnBHero provides a short-term room
rental service to travelers. While BnBHero
is as easy to use as a hotel, it also provides
cheap services and opportunities to
interact with local residents. Some 3,000
rooms are currently registered with
BnBHero, and more than 1,000 travelers
use the service every day.
This year, the company plans to begin
a monthly rental service for long-term
travelers.
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Company Name BnBHero
CEO Minsoung Jo
Website www.bnbhero.com
Korean AirBnB
BnB Hero

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‘Kozaza’ is a word used by Korean mothers
to put their children into a deep sleep. It
is best translated as ‘sleep well’ or ‘take
a deep sleep’. Kozaza provides travelers
deep sleep as well as special experiences
by connecting them with empty rooms.
In particular, Kozaza has been focusing on
‘hanok stays’ which enable travelers to stay
in Korean traditional houses(hanok) and
experience traditional culture of Korea.
In addition, the company facilitates the
Company Name KOZAZA
CEO Sanku Jo
Website www.kozaza.com
sharing of diverse types of vacant rooms
in regular houses, apartments, pensions,
guest houses, studios, temple stays, and
so on.
Deep sleep in a hanok
KOZAZA

21. Parking lots for everyone
Moducompany
Moducompany connects parking lot
owners with people in need of a parking
space during idle time through the
smartphone application ‘Modu’s Parking
Lot’. Having launched its service in early
December 2013, the company now
provides information on around 40,000
parking spaces to 20,000 members.
Modu’s Parking Lot has proved that
parking lot expansion is not the only
solution to the city’s serious parking
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Company Name Moducompany Inc.
CEO
Soonam Kahng
Donghyun Kim
Website www.parkingshare.kr
problem. The company will continue
with its efforts to create a standard
model of parking lot sharing by closely
collaborating with the public sector.
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Cost-effective ways of sharing parking spaces
Sellpark
Sellpark shares parking spaces during
those times when their owners aren’t
using them by its website or application
so that people in urgent need of a space
can use the parking spaces instead. Users
can search for the closest and cheapest
available parking space around their
office or home using Sellpark.
In the early phase of business, it was
difficult to persuade parking space
owners to join the scheme because the
Company Name Sellpark
CEO Chanlyong Kang
Website www.sellpark.kr
concept of sharing a parking space was
unfamiliar.
Now, however, the company possesses
around 1,000 members and enjoys 120
monthly trades.

23. Sharing
City
Seoul
Sharing of items
We can prevent the waste of resources by sharing any items that we do not use
frequently. Collaborative consumption is a new model of consumption that reduces
expenditure while increasing satisfaction.
It enables prudent housekeeping at a lower cost than retail purchasing. In addition,
mutual networking can vitalize internal exchanges within a community. The Seoul
Metropolitan Government is dedicated to promoting the sharing of diverse items,
such as children’s clothes and cars, by collaborating with many companies that want
to share items.
Public Sector Private Sector
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➊ Green car
➋ SOCAR
➌ KIPLE
➊ Book sharing
➋ Tool and toy library
➌ Samgaenaru Good Neighbor
Sharing Market
➍ OPEN CLOSET
➎ Theatre waste recycle
➏ Tikle
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Book sharing
The book sharing project creates a ‘community bookshelf’ that enables people to share
their books with neighbors. Book sharing satisfies both people’s cultural desire and
their innate love of sharing. In particular, Songpa-gu has established and is currently
operating diverse book sharing schemes. The most unique case is the utilization of
phone booths for book sharing. Phone booths are gradually becoming obsolete due
to the widespread use of smartphones, but they are now being transformed into book
sharing venues. Including these, there are now nineteen book-sharing programs in the
Seoul Metropolitan Government.

25. Tool and toy library
Tools are representative objects that every house possesses but does not frequently use.
Children’s toys can be an excessive burden for parents because of their high cost and
limited usage period. That is why Seoul is operating tool and toy libraries in many parts
of the city. There are currently fourteen tool libraries and thirty toy libraries in Seoul. In
particular, camping equipment is now shared in the Hwayang-dong Tool Library in
Gwangjin-gu as demand continues to increase. The Seoul Metropolitan Government
works to share diverse items in response to regional characteristics and residents’
demand.
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26. The autonomous boroughs of Seoul are also carrying out diverse sharing projects. The
sharing project contest held in 2014 among the city’s autonomous boroughs introduced
various examples of sharing projects The Samgaenaru Good Neighbor Sharing Market
in Mapo-gu is one of them. The Samgaenaru Good Neighbor Sharing Market utilizes
buildings that are left behind during the demolition process of re-development. This
innovative ‘market place’ plans to change the community atmosphere by operating a
sharing school and DIY classes. There are now many areas in Seoul that are attempting
to spread the new sharing culture and restore the city by implementing sharing
projects.
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Samgaenaru Good Neighbor Sharing Market
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Company Name Green Car Co.,Ltd.
CEO Jinhong Kim
Website www.greencar.co.kr
Korea’s first and biggest car sharing service
Green Car
Green Car is the first and the biggest car
sharing company in Korea. The term ‘car
sharing’ was completely unfamiliar in
Korea until recently. As a startup company,
Green Car faced many initial difficulties
in constructing a business model, and
was unable to secure vehicles or parking
lots. That’s when the Seoul Metropolitan
Government began supporting Green Car.
It was a groundbreaking moment for the
company as brand awareness and trust in
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car sharing increased among citizens. Also,
as the company was allowed to use public
parking lots that are operated by the city,
it is now able to provide a more accessible
car sharing service.
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Company Name SOCAR
CEO Jimahn Kim
Website www.socar.kr
Flexible and reasonable alternative to private vehicle use
SOCAR
SOCAR is a socially innovative company
that offers a flexible and reasonable
alternative to private vehicle use by
providing an economic and eco-friendly
car sharing service. SOCAR was put in
charge of Seoul's official car sharing
service, Nanum Car, in March 2012, only
one year after its foundation at Jeju in
November 2011.
Since then, the company has quickly
expanded its service not only to the
capital area, including Incheon and
Gyeonggi, but also to Busan, Daegu, and
Ulsan. SOCAR calls its members SOCHIN(i.
e.‘friends of SOCAR’) and focuses on
creating a car sharing service that is
shaped by its members through diverse
channels including SNS and the Internet
blogs.

29. Company Name KIPLE.Co.,Ltd.
CEO Sungyoung Lee
Website www.kiple.net
Sharing children’s wear that no longer fits
KIPLE
KIPLE is a service that connects individuals
wishing to exchange and share children’s
wear that no longer fits in a fair and
convenient manner.
The company was founded in 2011,
when mothers and fathers began
understanding the value of the sharing
economy and started worrying about
the redistribution problem of children’s
wear. In January 2012, the company
benchmarked the USA’s Thredup and
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began its first online community service.
There are now around 60,000 registered
clothing items with 8,000 members.
Starting in 2014, KIPLE conducts its
children’s wear sharing business along
with the regional community through
collaboration with national and public
nursing homes within Seoul’s boroughs.
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Company Name OPEN CLOSET
CEO Manil Han
Website www.theopencloset.net
Sharing suits that people don’t wear
OPEN CLOSET
There are many young people currently
in search of a job in Korea. And, in
many cases, they are faced with the
burdensome price of suits for their
interviews. In July 2012, OPEN CLOSET
began its clothing rental business for
young people facing economic difficulty
and people from socially neglected and
vulnerable classes. Since its foundation,
the business has enjoyed 5,000 trades and
450,000 cumulative visitors. The company
is now approaching more citizens with its
sharing service since its appearance on a
TV program. OPEN CLOSET also plans to
use its sharing business profit to operate
diverse consulting programs for young
people who are looking for jobs.

31. Company Name Theatre Waste Recycle
CEO Woongjip Choi
Website www.twr.or.kr
Sharing and recycling of theatre items and information
Theatre Waste Recycle
In 2010, the set of a drama co-produced
by France and Korea was on the verge of
being thrown away. The cost of building
the set was almost KRW 20 million. The
theatre group posted a photo and a
brief comment on Facebook in order to
prevent its disposal.
In a mere 4 seconds, another theatre
company replied that it wished to acquire
the set. The set is still in use today. This
event led to the creation of the Theatre
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Waste Recycle project which shares and
recycles theatre items and information.
It is an online platform that connects a
group or person who no longer needs an
item with another group or person who
needs it.
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Tikle is a sharing company that provides
a carpool service. The service opened
in May 2013, and there are now around
30,000 members actively engaging in
the carpool as of June 2014. Tikle is a
platform that connects people who want
to carpool. Users can enjoy reasonable
consumption and resource preservation
using the Tikle service.The company will
continue striving to enhance trust in
carpooling and improve its service quality.
Company Name Socialnanum Co., Ltd.
CEO SungWhan Park
Website www.tikle.co.kr
Application to make carpooling a way of life
Tikle

33. Sharing
City
Seoul
Sharing of experience and information
In addition to space and items, we can also share our talents, experience, and
information. The Seoul Metropolitan Government has already opened its
information to its citizens. There used to be a traditional sharing culture called
poomasi (labor sharing) in Korea. The tradition has been revived as ‘Seoul e-Labor
Sharing’ and is currently operational in various parts of Seoul. People can use a
regional currency to share talents, experience, and items. There are also other
diverse forms of sharing that exist in Seoul, and all information on sharing is
provided to the citizens via SHARE HUB.
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➊ Seoul e-Labor Sharing
➋ myRealTrip
➌ Wisdome
➊ Seoul Open Data Plaza
➋ Seoul Photo Bank
➍ Zipbab
➎ Local Design Movement
➏ CC Korea

34. It is Seoul’s principle to open all public data to the public. Seoul Open Data Plaza is an
online space for sharing the city’s information with citizens. All citizens can freely access
the data at no cost. Approximately 1,400 types of data sets are open to the public. The
Seoul Metropolitan Government also provides visual data that utilizes charts, fi gures,
and colors in order to enhance understanding among citizens. In addition, the city
opened all approved documents to public perusal in March 2014. This policy answers
citizens’ questions and fulfi lls Seoul’s goal of ensuring transparent administration.
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Seoul Open Data Plaza
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Seoul Photo Bank
There are often times when we cannot find appropriate photos when writing reports
or decorating Internet blogs. Seoul Photo Bank is a photo sharing website (wow.seoul.
go.kr) that offers a solution to this problem. Among the photos posted on the website,
anyone can utilize photos that are owned by the city for free. Citizens can post and
share their own photos as well. Currently, around 250,000 photos are registered on
Seoul Photo Bank.
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36. Sharing of private companies’
experience and information
Company Name Seoul e-Poomasi
CEO Sungkyu Lim
Website poomasi.welfare.seoul.kr
Sharing talents and items with local currency
Seoul e-Labor Sharing
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For a long time, there existed a tradition
of sharing labor and possessions in Korea.
This tradition was called dure or pumasi.
Seoul e-Labor Sharing was launched
to revive this tradition in our own era
and restore village communities. Seoul
e-Labor Sharing is a local community
sharing business that shares other people’s
possessions or talents within a region
using a community currency called ‘Mun’.
For example, Mrs. A, who possesses a
Yoga instruction license, may help Mr. B
with a yoga lesson, and receive Mun in
return, and then use that Mun to purchase
an item belonging to Mr. C. Starting with
two autonomous boroughs in 2010, Seoul
e-Labor Sharing is now operational in
seventeen autonomous boroughs. There
are now 6,000 members and the volume
of the community currency Mun trade has
exceeded KRW 100 million. Seoul e-Labor
Sharing will continue its efforts to vitalize
the talent and possession sharing culture
in the daily life of Seoul’s citizens.

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Company Name myRealTrip Inc.
CEO Donggun Lee
Website www.myrealtrip.com
Customized trips with local people
myRealTrip
myRealTrip provides a customized travel
service accompanied by local people.
Since the launch of the service in February
2012, approximately 18,000 people
have travelled to 187 cities around the
world using myRealTrip. There is a good
reason behind many people’s use of the
company’s service. Trust is the key to the
travel service business, and the company
was able to provide this trust due to its
position as an official sharing company
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recognized by the Seoul Metropolitan
Government. myRealTrip plans to launch
a mobile application in the near future,
and create a service for foreigners to travel
conveniently in Korea.

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Company Name Wisdome
CEO Sangyeob Han
Website www.wisdo.me
Platform for sharing knowledge, insight and know-how
Wisdome
Wisdome is a platform designed to enable
‘Human Books’ to share their knowledge,
insight and know-how with people in
need.
Launched in March 2012, Wisdome
presents around 1,000 people, collectively
known as ‘Human Books’, who possess
experience and stories from diverse fields.
In the past two years, around 24,000
participants have held 2,500 meetings
through Wisdome. Wisdome will continue
to invite ‘Human Books’ and enable the
sharing of diverse experiences.

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Zipbab is an online platform dedicated to
social dining. This innovative online solution
provides services-including location
brokerage, reservation, payment gateway
and participant invitation-designed to
enable anyone to conveniently host a
meeting. The huge increase in one-person
households has resulted in increased
demand for communication and help with
forming relationships help with forming
relationships. This trend has brought
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“Zipbob,” a social dining service that provides
meeting opportunities using bab(‘meal’ in
korean) as its main medium, under the
spotlight. Since its launch in October 2012,
around 4,000 meetings have taken place,
with around 200 meetings held every week.
The company plans to expand its service
beyond Seoul to the entire country in order
to provide warm dining opportunities that
resemble zipbab(‘meal at home’ in korean)
to many more people.
Online social dining platform
Zipbab
Company Name Zipbob Co., Ltd.
CEO Lynn Park
Website www.zipbob.net

40. Company Name Localstitch
CEO Sumin Kim
Website www.localstitch.kr
Experiencing local life through travel
Local Design Movement
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The local hotel ‘Local Stitch’ is a platform that
remodels small regional superannuated
inns and provides an accommodation
service while connecting guests with
the tourism resources and services
of a particular local community. The
Local Stitch prototype model began on
October 2013 in Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu,
Seoul. Using this prototype, the company
is experimenting with whether it can
provide a hotel-grade complex service
through the sharing of regional services
and contents. Local Stitch strives for
simple ‘tourism’. Ultimately, the company
focuses on the supply of ‘local life tourism’
that allows people to experience regional
life while helping local commercial areas
at the same time.

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Company Name Creative Commons Korea
CEO Jeongwook Seo
Website www.cckorea.org
Sharing of knowledge, information, and art through CCL
CC Korea
CC KOREA is a non-profit organization
that pursues an open culture where
everyone gets together to create and
share. While respecting the rights of
copyright holders, the organization
distributes the CCL(creative commons
license), an open license for the sharing of
knowledge, information, and art.
Since 2013, CC KOREA has been operating
SHARE HUB(sharehub.kr) with the Seoul
Metropolitan Government to disseminate
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the culture of sharing. CC KOREA plays
an important role in the private sector as
Seoul’s partner in realizing ‘Sharing Seoul’.
CC KOREA will continue to announce
sharing activities, promote citizens’
participation, and collaborate with
companies, organizations, communities
and governments at home and overseas
that perform sharing activities.

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List of other sharing companies
Website Organization name Category
spacemarket.kr Fairspace
Space sharing
idlelot.kr Idlelot
www.hanintel.com Hanintel
www.homestaykorea.com Homestay Korea
www.labo.or.kr Labo Korea
www.spacenoah.net Space Noah
www.livingnart.or.kr Living & Art Creative Center
www.norizzang.org Norizzang
www.hellomarket.com Hellomarket
www.churchplus12.com Churchplus
3siot.org/roundabout Seoul Social Standard
billi.co.kr Billi
Item sharing
billiji.com Billiji
cafe.naver.com snumarket/125 SNU Market
www.facebook.com/nmarketpage N Market
blog.letsplayplanet.com Play Planet
Experience/talent
sharing
www.joinusworld.org Join us Korea
www.bookprmedia.com Book PR Media
wishket.com Wishket
www.ittda.co.kr Ready & Start
www.airklass.com Quriously
poomasi.welfare.seoul.kr/community/
CMMN31/upum_user_index.do Eunpyeong e-Poomasi
www.questrunner.com Questrunner Korea

43. Future tasks for
‘Sharing City Seoul’
The US economics magazine Forbes recently selected the Seoul Metropolitan
Government as a major exemplar of the global sharing economy. Seoul’s creation of
a private-public cooperative model for the vitalization of the sharing economy has
inspired many cities around the world. But there are still many more tasks that Seoul
needs to perform.
In order to develop ‘Sharing city, Seoul’, the Seoul Metropolitan Government will
further accelerate projects to achieve the following goals:
➊ Preparation of a system for the establishment of sharing economic ecology
➋ Widespread adoption by citizens through interface with villages
➌ Promotion of sharing companies
photo(cc) via Kihong Kim / fl ickr.com
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Preparation of a system for
the establishment of
the sharing economic ecology
There are aspects of the sharing economy
that conflict with existing industries
or contradict existing laws. Taxation in
particular is a sensitive matter. Also, the
insurance system for the sharing economy
service is not yet complete. The Seoul
Metropolitan Government is organizing
a system aimed at vitalizing the sharing
economy. The city is reviewing the
individual ordinances that hinder sharing
activities, and working with the relevant
departments to revise such laws. In addition,
the city is examining the incorporation of
an insurance system that embraces the
sharing economy service. Starting this year,
Seoul will concentrate on preparing the
basic system for the vitalization of sharing
economy, including regulation, taxation,
and insurance. These measures will enable
us to construct an environment in which
the sharing economy can exist and grow
autonomously.

45. Widespread adoption by citizens
through interface with villages
In the past year, the Seoul Metropolitan
Government has been working diligently
to construct the infrastructure required
for the sharing economy. The city will now
work with autonomous boroughs and
villages that are directly involved with the
everyday life of their citizens, in order to
firmly establish the sharing economy as an
integral element of their way of life. First,
the city will start ‘Visiting Ground of Sharing’
this year, in which citizens can participate
directly. This event, traditionally hosted by
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the city, will be hosted at the autonomous
borough level from now on. This will
present an opportunity for people to easily
understand the concept of the sharing
economy. Also, more sharing centers
and tool banks will be installed within
regional living areas in a bid to establish a
convenient sharing environment. In the
long term, the spaces for sharing activities
will be gradually expanded using schools,
churches and residential centers as key
locations.
Future tasks of ‘Sharing city, Seoul’

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Car sharing and urban home visit schemes
have already become established in Seoul
as new trends. Sharing companies such as
Green Car, SOCAR, KOZAZA and BnBHero
are growing rapidly.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government
will be unsparing with its support for
companies that use private civilian
capacity to lead the sharing economy.
Furthermore, the city will not hesitate to
take an interest in and provide support for
startup companies. Startup companies are
faced with numerous challenges before
they can grow. The Seoul Metropolitan
Government will help these companies to
overcome their difficulties efficiently. Not
only will the city offer financial support,
but it will also connect human resources
and provide mentoring and consulting
services.
Seoul’s sharing map will be more diverse
and colorful with the incubation and the
promotion of startup companies.
Promotion of
sharing companies

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48. Chart of affiliated domestic
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49. Sharing city, Seoul
Publishing Office｜Seoul Metropolitan Government
Publisher｜Wonsoon Park, Mayor, Seoul Metropolitan Government
Editorial Team｜Hyeongwoo Bae, Director of Social Innovation
Kyeyul Lee, Deputy Director of Social innovation
Taehyeong Noh, Manager
Address｜110, Sejong-daero, Jung-gu, Seoul, 100-744, Korea
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