Mokwon University Student Team Wins Consecutive Awards at Social Venture and Startup Competition

The Mokwon University student team, listed among the winners of the '2022 SDGs Social Venture Championship,' is taking a commemorative photo after the awards ceremony. Photo by Mokwon University

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] A student team from Mokwon University has delivered consecutive award-winning news in social venture and startup-related competitions.

According to the Mokwon University LINC 3.0 Project Group on the 15th, the team (Proog) consisting of An Ji-yoon, Kim Ye-jin, Kim So-jung, Lee Min-joo, and Jo Sang-woo from the Department of Visual Communication Design won the bronze prize, and the team (BEGO) consisting of Yang Woo-yeol, Geum Ji-hye, Jang Geon-hee, Kim Soo-hyun, and Ji Chae-won from the same department won the encouragement award at the recent '2022 SDGs Social Venture Championship.'

The competition was conducted by selecting one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agendas and developing and presenting social venture ideas based on it.

Earlier, at the '2022 Daejeon University Student Public Technology Startup Idea Competition' held last month, the 'Geunjagam Team' (Cheon Woong-hee and Kim Min-jung from Hanbat National University, Kim Shin-ae and Sung Chae-young from Chungnam National University), led by Lee Ui-je from the Department of Theology at Mokwon University (4th year), won the grand prize.

This competition was a contest to discover startup ideas based on public technologies from research institutes and universities in the Daejeon area, jointly hosted by five universities including Mokwon University.

Additionally, Mokwon University's startup club 'IRU Team' (Park Han-hyung and Shim Ji-yeon from the Department of Business Administration) recently participated in the '2022 Daejeon Startup School Startup Camp and Competition' and won the excellence award with a pet toy item, while the 'lawpaix Team' (Jo Hyun-woong from the Department of Textile and Fashion Design) won the encouragement award with a heather accessory item at the same competition.

This competition was held by a coalition of seven local universities including Mokwon University to discover and nurture student (prospective) entrepreneurs in the Daejeon area.

Jung Cheol-ho, head of the Mokwon University LINC 3.0 Project Group, said, "The consecutive award-winning news of our university's student teams is the result of their startup items being validated externally and developed to the next level," adding, "Mokwon University plans to strengthen curricular and extracurricular startup support to further spread entrepreneurship within the campus."

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