Woongjin ThinkBig Launches World's Largest Open Education Platform 'Udemy' in Korea
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AI education company Woongjin ThinkBig (CEO Jaejin Lee) announced on the 29th that it will officially launch the world's largest open education platform, Udemy, in Korea. Photo by Woongjin ThinkBig
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heeyoon] AI education company Woongjin ThinkBig (CEO Lee Jaejin) announced on the 29th that it will officially launch the world's largest open education platform, Udemy, in Korea.
Udemy is the world's number one open education platform founded in May 2010 by Eren Bali from Turkey. The name is an abbreviation of "The Academy of You," meaning "your school," and it offers 65,000 instructors and 183,000 courses in 75 languages.
Woongjin ThinkBig and Udemy signed an exclusive contract for the Korean business last March. Various plans will be provided to activate the platform domestically in line with the official launch.
To make Udemy's courses, which are mainly composed of English content, easily accessible to Koreans, a Korean-style Udemy website (UdemyKorea.com) will be opened. The Korean Udemy website plans to provide insights reflecting various trends such as IT, language learning, and business, and curate recommended courses by category.
For learners who find English difficult, Korean subtitles will be supported for globally popular courses. Woongjin ThinkBig added that it is pursuing partnerships with various content providers so that famous lectures in high-demand fields in Korea, such as IT, business, job development, and language learning, can all be accessed on Udemy.
Enterprise services for domestic companies will also be introduced. Woongjin ThinkBig plans to carefully select the top 5% of the 183,000 courses and offer various job training packages tailored to corporate needs. They will provide unlimited access to lectures related to the latest trends in the relevant industries at a reasonable price of about 200,000 KRW per account. Various support tools such as learning paths and learning analytics dashboards will also be provided, offering practical and efficient job training advantages.
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Park Mingyu, head of Woongjin ThinkBig's Udemy business division, said, "Udemy offers various IT technology and trend lectures verified worldwide, including the US, and we are working on Korean localization of globally popular courses. Since it is an open platform where anyone can become an instructor and earn income, we ask for the interest and support of talented prospective instructors."
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