KB Financial Group has announced a strategic partnership with Plug and Play to join as an Anchor Partner in Silicon Valley and help KB Starters grow from a domestic to global champion. The beginning of this partnership dates back to April 2019. With an invitation to the forum held in Silicon Valley, Jong-Kyoo Yoon, Chairman & CEO of the KBFG, visited Plug and Play's headquarters in Silicon Valley and had the chance to look at the accelerator space and program in detail. After that, KBFG and Plug and Play decided to start a strategic partnership to open a two-way channel to support Korean startups expanding abroad and international startups to enter the Korean market regularly.