ICON Mainnet will officially launch on January 24, 2018, one week before 2018 ICON Annual SummitOn January 31, 2018, ICON team will host our 1st ICON Annual Summit titled The Genesis, appropriately at one of the most iconic, tallest skyscrapers in the world Lotte World Tower. Also appropriately, this event is timed just before the Lunar New Year.
We have invited blockchain experts, entrepreneurs, influencers, and other key decision-makers from around the globe to showcase our latest technical development including Mainnet, 2018 roadmap, and introduce a number of DApps that will run on top of the ICON network. ICON team has strived to Hyperconnect the World, and this day will mark the beginning of a new era, the birth of the ICON Network ecosystem.https://medium.com/helloiconworld/icon-annual-summit-mainnet-launch-release-candidate-6a6c5b5d86daChin Dae-je, former executive of Samsung Electronics and former Minister of Information and Communication, has been appointed as the first president of Korean Blockchain Association. Members of KBA includes Coinone, The Loop and Dayli Financial Group (these three are strongly related to ICX). Other members include Bithumb, Moin, Streami, Coinplug, Adamco, City of Daejeon (5th largest city in Korea). District Office of Geumcheon,(One of 25 districts(gu) in Seoul), and others.
I think this is a good news that can ease some nerves of Korean crypto investors. The blockchain and crypto community just got some more power against the government pressure.https://www.reddit.com/r/icon/comments/7piw5r/first_president_of_korean_blockchain_association/Icon is what Neo was @ 10 dollar, Buy it while it's still cheap
I fully agree with the above information. Cryptocurrency is quite well accustomed to Asian countries because at the moment they are the most advanced.