Gyeongnam Jeongbodae Holds Award Ceremony for 'Startup Content Idea Contest'

Gyeongnam Information University (President Kim Dae-sik) held an "Entrepreneurship Content Idea Contest" to strengthen the entrepreneurial capabilities of its students and held an awards ceremony on the 12th at the Minseok Memorial Hall conference room on campus.

This contest was part of the 2023 Specialized College Innovation Support Project, under the customized industry-academia cooperation education activation program, and was held from May 2 to 26 with various themes such as "major fields," "user-centered in daily life," "community-linked," and "other creative convergence ideas."

As a result of the contest, a total of 24 ideas were submitted by 62 students, including those from the Department of Computer Science. Ryu Seung-woo's idea, "Shoes using recycled 'gobaek (go&back sneakers)' fashion shoes," was selected as the grand prize winner.

Ryu Seung-woo, who won the grand prize, received the President's Award and a prize money of 1,000,000 KRW.

Additionally, Jeong Ye-jin from the Department of Computer Science received the Excellence Award and 600,000 KRW for the theme "VR-based Time Travel Experience," and nursing students Choi Seo-yeon and Park Eun-seo received the President's Award and 400,000 KRW for the theme "Fleming."

Contest winners and Kim Dae-sik, President of Gyeongnam Information University (sixth from the left), are taking a group commemorative photo.

Lim Jun-woo, head of the Innovation Support Project Group at Gyeongnam Information University, said, "All 24 ideas submitted this time are creative and have sufficient potential for development, so we plan to develop concrete programs to spread the results and support customized mentoring and co-teaching for students."

Yoo Jung-yong, director of the Social Enterprise Research Institute who served as a judge, said, "More than half of the contest ideas seem to have sufficient business potential if they go through additional advanced stages," and added, "As entrepreneurship among university students has recently become popular, if related specialized education is supported step-by-step at the university level, very good results can be expected."

The Specialized College Innovation Support Project Group at Gyeongnam Information University plans to activate student entrepreneurship and enhance the direction of entrepreneurship education to nurture talents who can play an important role in regional society and industrial development.

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