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Case Study: BitGo VIP Networking Reception — A KBW Investor Evening

How Chris & Partners produced BitGo's invite-only VIP networking reception at Raum, Seoul during Korea Blockchain Week — co-hosted with FACTBLOCK.

How an Agency Produces a KBW 2026 Side Event: An 11-Week Execution Guide

Eleven weeks to KBW 2026 (Sep 29–Oct 1). The execution sequence we actually use — and the three places an agency earns its fee.

Seongsu-dong Event Venues in Seoul: Where Brand Launches and Pop-ups Happen

Converted warehouses, showrooms and rooftops — a guide to Seongsu-dong's event spaces by type, and what to confirm before you book.

Best Conference & Seminar Venues in Yeouido, Seoul (Finance & IR Events)

Yeouido's standout venues for IR and investor events, corporate seminars, and conferences — in Seoul's financial district.

Best Conference & Event Venues in Gangnam, Seoul (by Size)

From COEX to five-star hotel ballrooms and seminar rooms — Gangnam's standout event venues, organized by size.

Case Study: IXO by TokenPost — A Web3 Conference Series That Drew 5,000+ Over Three Seasons

How Chris & Partners produced all three seasons of TokenPost's IXO Web3 conference series — 5,000+ participants, 100+ sponsors, 50+ sessions across three Seoul venues.

Where Do You Start With Corporate Event Planning? An 8-Step Process

From defining the goal to the post-event review — an 8-step process for planning a corporate event, even if it's your first.

Case Study: Polygon Aggregation Summit 2024 — 1,000+ Guests, 50+ Programs in Bangkok

How Chris & Partners built and ran Polygon's largest 2024 APAC event — 1,000+ guests and 50+ concurrent programs over two days in Bangkok.

How to Budget a Corporate Conference: A Full Cost Breakdown

From a 100-person seminar to a 1,000-person flagship — how to design a corporate conference budget line by line: venue, F&B, production, staffing.

Where to Hold a Conference in Seoul? Recommended Venues by Event Size (100–1,000)

A practical guide to Seoul conference venues organized by event size — from a 100-person seminar to a 1,000-person conference.

How to Choose a Global Event Agency — 7 Checks for Foreign Companies and Startups

Seven checks to help foreign companies' Korea offices and startups—those without the bandwidth for a full RFP—quickly vet a global event agency, from portfolio fit to crisis response.

Case Study: TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 — Booth & Side Events for Platinum Sponsor Sahara AI

How Chris & Partners delivered the platinum-sponsor booth and side events for Sahara AI at TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 — booth creation, operations, and local vendor coordination at the world's largest crypto event.

5 Conference Program Strategies That Raise Participant Satisfaction

Case Study: Sahara AI Connect Party 2025 — KBW's 1,000-Guest Opening Night

How Chris & Partners planned and produced the opening party of Korea Blockchain Week 2025: 1,000 guests at Sebit Island, designed as a festival of technology, culture and music.

KBW 2026 Side Events: Why You Should Start in June — The Complete Prep Timeline

A side-event prep guide for companies targeting KBW 2026 (Sep 29–Oct 1, Grand Walkerhill): a 15-week countdown timeline, venue-securing strategy, and the KBW 2025 opening-night case.

What Makes Successful Global Conferences Different? 🌍

📣 The 7 Most Effective Marketing Strategies to Attract Conference Participants

How to Build a Crypto Meetup That Investors Actually Attend

Why Seoul Is Drawing Attention as a Web3 Event City

Why ‘Event Safety’ Matters Most in the MICE Industry

TOP 7 Venues for Corporate Conferences in Seoul

Where to Hold a 500-Person Conference in Seoul

How AI Is Changing Conference Planning: A New Shift in the MICE Industry

How to Design an Event Sponsorship Package

How to Build a Conference That Sponsors Come to First

Will Hybrid Events Continue? The New Standard After Offline's Return

A Conference Checklist for Corporate Event Managers

How to Design a Program for a Successful Corporate Conference

Why ‘Sustainable Events’ Matter in the MICE Industry

The 7 Most Common Mistakes Event Planners Make

How Much Budget Does a Crypto Meetup Need?

7 Trends Reshaping the MICE Industry in 2026

10 Things a First-Time Corporate Conference Planner Must Know

TOP 5 Venues for Crypto Meetups in Seoul

2025 Korea Medical Device R&D Awards

The Future is Vertical : The Global Rise of Short Form Media

Sahara AI Connect Party 2025

Seoul Meta Week 2025

2025 Top 10 Flagship Projects Achievement Report, Korea Medical Device Development Fund

INVEST K-FINANCE: HONG KONG IR 2024

AGGREGATION SUMMIT 2024

TOKYO GAME SHOW 2024

TOKEN 2049 Singapore

Build Up Korea 2024

2024 Seoul Meta Week

10th World Water Forum

Financial Supervisory Service ‘INVEST K-FINANCE : NEW YORK IR 2024’

2024 Top 10 Flagship Projects Achievement Report, Korea Medical Device Development Fund

2023 Korea National Conference of Internal Auditors

Build Up Korea 2023

Polygon IGNITE

2023 Seoul Meta Week

Korea Mouse Phenotyping Center (KMPC) Symposiums

2022 Korea National Conference of Internal Auditors

oVice Hybrid Work Summit 2023

Full Recap of ComplexCon 2022, the World's Largest Art-Culture Event | | 02

Full Recap of ComplexCon 2022, the World's Largest Art-Culture Event | | 01

The Arrival of Generation Alpha, Set to Keep the MZ Generation on Its Toes

2022 Cultural City Expo & International Conference

2022 Seoul Meta Week

Korea Mouse Phenotyping Center (KMPC) 2nd Achievement Exhibition

Polygon Connect Korea

27th EMEAP Governors' Meeting & 11th EMEAP Governors' and Heads of Supervision Meeting

[META-TREND 12] AI Is Alive? / ZEPETO Enters the Middle East

2050 Global Megacity The Seoul Institute Workshop

2022 Second-Half Major Conference Schedule.zip

[META-TREND 11] Web 3.0's Paradigm Shift: The Digital Economy

Public Hearing on the Enforcement Decree and Rules of the Artists' Rights Guarantee Act

City Branding: Giving a City Its Color

OMW 2022: On Uniqueness in an Age of Infinite Replication

The 1st K-Culture Conference

The Skies Reopen—What New Wind Will Blow Through the MICE Industry?

2022 Joint Briefing on International Cultural Exchange Support Programs

[META-TREND 10] The Real World's Critique of the Virtual World

2022 9th World Water Forum

2022 World Water Day

2022 MICE Industry: Now's the Time to Prepare Both Online and Offline

[Week 1, March] Latest COVID-19 Trends with Chris & Partners Can Confirmed Cases Vote in the Presidential Election?

Discovering Unique Venues for Hybrid Events

The Direction of the MICE Industry in the Endemic Era (2022 Global Conferences.zip)

The Metaverse's Rising Star Virtual Influencers

2022 First-Half Major Conference Schedule (Feat. Tech Trends)

AR Marketing A Brand Strategy That Moves Gen Z

[META-TREND 09] Companies' Tight Race Toward the Metaverse

The Expansion of the Digital World Digital Transformation and the Metaverse

The Concept of Blockchain and How It Differs from Traditional Financial Transactions

The Future of Green MICE, Seen from Singapore

2022 MICE Trends, All Gathered Here

2021 Museum Network Fellowship

2021 4th African Martial Arts Conference

World Future Forum: Culture, Creativity, Innovation

National Gugak Center 70th Anniversary International Seminar

Bio Plus • Interphex Korea 2021

2022 Trends Worth Knowing

How to Plan a Stable, Successful Online Event

On Planning Public-Institution/Government Events You Can't Find by Searching

[Week 2, December] Latest COVID-19 Trends with Chris & Partners

The Year-End Highlight, Awards Ceremonies and Corporate Event Planning A to Z

2021 ACIIA Audit Committee Forum & Korea National Conference

The 1st Seoul Peace Think-Tank International Conference (SPIC 2021)

[META-TREND 08] Nike Enters the Metaverse / Metaverse Adoption by Company Size

Know-How for Booking Speakers Properly

Why You Need the International Conference Specialist Certification (CMP)

The Changes With-Corona Will Bring to the MICE Industry

Why Does Everyone Look Only at First Impressions? The Finish Matters Too (Event Follow-Up Edition)

[SPIC 2021] At Last, a Peace International Conference Opens in Seoul

Can You Hear It? Companies' Cry for Peace

Metacon 2021

‘Economics Is Hard?’ Just Knowing the Terms Gets You Halfway There.

Announcement of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

The Start of International Peace, UN Day

An Especially Meaningful 2021 Tourism Day, and News of CEO Na Seo-jeong's Prime Minister's Award

The Approaching World Tourism Day

[META-TREND 07] Want Metaverse Trends and Insight? / CU Opens 2nd ZEPETO Store

BEST 4 Communication-Type Metaverse Platforms Every Hot Company Has Tried

[META-TREND 06] The Arrival of a New Giant, ifland / Portal Communities in the Metaverse Too?

A Preview of the International Day of Peace

SK Event ESG On-Site Report! Say It All

[META-TREND 05] 88% of IT Workers Positive on the Metaverse / Metaverse University Admissions Fair

[Week 4, July] Latest COVID-19 Trends with Chris & Partners

[META-TREND 04] Who's the #1 Domestic Metaverse Platform? / Metaverse Industry Association Launches

VR/AR/MR/XR Technologies Breaking Down the Boundary Between Real and Virtual

[META-TREND 03] Sony Music Joins Hands with Roblox / Meeting Your New-Hire Cohort in a Virtual World

ESG, the New Normal of Corporate Management

The Future of MICE, Green MICE

[META-TREND 02] Presidential Candidates Met in the Metaverse / Zigbang Commutes via the Metaverse

2021 Environment Day: The Year of Ecosystem Restoration

Walk21 Seoul International Walking Conference

[META-TREND 01] The Metaverse for New Public-Servant Training Too?!

CBDC, the Prelude to the Digital Currency Era

The Hot Keyword That Hit 2021, METAVERSE

World MICE Now -USA-

World MICE Now -Europe-

World MICE Now -Singapore-

Lina Life 34th Anniversary Event

Yongin Mental Hospital Foundation Symposium 2021

Online Events—How Far Have You Tried?

Sustainable MICE, Green Mice

Post-Corona Begins with Digital Transformation.

2021 Business Event Trend Outlook

2020 National Public Art Museum Curator Workshop

Nam June Paik Art Center: Nam June Paik's Gift 12

Embassy of Colombia Cycling Webinar & Race Event

1st World Museum Forum - Museums and Artificial Intelligence

3rd Africa Martial Arts Webinar

2020 Seoul Peace Dialogue

2020 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage

2020 ICCA General Assembly Hub Seoul

2020 LG Air Solution Digital Press Conference

4th Jeonju World Slow Forum & Slow Award

[Webinar Studio] 3 Ways to Run Satisfying Online-Education LIVE / Online Conference Agency

[Webinar Studio] 5 Differentiators of a Specialist PCO Company with a Video-Conferencing System / Online Conference Agency

5 Benefits Video Conferencing Brings!

Seoul Discusses the Post-Corona Era! ‘CAC Global Summit 2020’ /Hybrid Event

‘2019 Busan MICE Alliance Leaders Forum’ — Keynote by Chris & Partners CEO Na Seo-jeong

Online Untact Events Virtual Tradeshows & Virtual Exhibitions

Corporate Event Planning & Awards Ceremony Planning

Speaker Booking & Invitation Management

For a Convention Planner, There's No Such Thing as a Trivial Mistake

Into the HYCON Hackathon ‘HYCONHACKS’!

Content Planning & Program Planning

Overseas Training Program Planning

Media Showcase Planning

Business Matching & Roadshow Planning

Conference & Forum

[About Us] Asia's Leading Expert in Event Management

8th World Water Forum Korea Pavilion

Exhibition Planning & Fair Planning

Government Event Planning & Public-Institution Event Planning

2019 Northern Forum -The New Northern Policy and Northeast Asian Multilateral Cooperation

Korea Mouse Phenotyping Center Achievement Exhibition

FedEx KOREA EMPLOYEE WELCOME EVENT (FedEx–TNT Integration Commemorative Event)

Netmarble A3: Still Alive (A3: Still Alive) Media Showcase

International Symposium - Superhumanity: How We Design Ourselves