About
Kwangdong Min, Ph.D.
Founder, Magis Global
Startup Business Development · Global Expansion · Practical AI
Since 2010, I've provided startup training and consulting centered on business planning, technology commercialization, business models, and pricing strategy.
More recently, I've expanded into AI Harness Engineering training and consulting — connecting generative AI to real work processes.
Working in the field, refining it in the classroom, and validating it through research
Since 2010, I've combined training and consulting with hands-on work in the field. I've worked as a founding member of an ETRI-related venture, head of the sales entity for an R&D technology venture, representative of a local-creator business, and a practitioner on overseas startup projects — and since 2024, as a startup expert in the ODA field. Rather than letting the problems I've encountered across these different settings stay as mere experience, I've brought them into my training and consulting, and examined them again through research.
Main Areas of Expertise
Pricing Strategy & Revenue Model
Global / ODA Startup Programs
Practical AI / Harness Engineering
Major Career
Magis Global · Founder
Apr 2019 ~ Present
Business development and commercialization consulting
Company D Inc. · Partner
Mar 2016 ~ Present
Startup accelerating
Gomadarak Ltd. · CEO
Jan 2021 ~ Present
Local-creator technology commercialization and vacant-space planning
Startup Mentor
Former Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
Degrees and Research
I've researched business models and technology commercialization, and connected that research to market analysis, product planning, pricing strategy, and business development practice.
Ph.D. in Business Administration
Research: Research on quantitatively interpreting business models and organizing the results from a product-planning and pricing-strategy perspective
Master's Degree in Entrepreneurship
Research: Success factors for technology commercialization at technology ventures using the BMO model
Bachelor's Degree in Law
Books
Book cover coming soon
Price Is Strategy
The Meticulous Way to Do a Startup
Technology Commercialization for Engineers
AI Harness Engineering for Non-Developers
Forthcoming
Global / ODA Experience
Beyond domestic startups, I've delivered startup training, business model development, IR, startup incubation, and business strategy consulting in Laos, Cambodia, Ghana, Vietnam, and Japan.
Through KOICA and other international cooperation projects, I have trained and advised local startups and startup-incubation organizations on business models, IR pitching, incubation strategy, and industry-academia cooperation strategy.
Not training that teaches AI — training that builds your own work tools with AI
I provide training and consulting that connects generative AI to actual work processes, rules, and validation structures — not just prompting — turning it into a practical, everyday tool.
Training / Consulting Experience
Since 2010, I've been active in startup business development and entrepreneurship education — teaching, consulting, and serving as an evaluator. I've served as a startup mentor and adjunct professor at institutions including the Sejong Creative Economy Innovation Center, Catholic Kwandong University, and Tongmyong University.
I help structure your business, and help you execute it.
I offer training, workshops, and consulting on startup business planning, business models, pricing strategy, global expansion, and practical AI use.