Hansangwoo, CEO of Wizdom, Confirmed as Candidate for 4th Kospo Chairman

Final Approval at February 27 Regular Delegate General Meeting
About 170 Startup Officials Attend New Year's Gathering

Hansangwoo, CEO of Wizdom, has been confirmed as the next chairman candidate of the Korea Startup Forum.

Han Sang-woo, CEO of Wizdom, confirmed as one of the four chair candidates of Korea Startup Forum
Photo by Korea Startup Forum

On the 30th, Kospo announced on the 31st that it held the ‘2024 1st Board of Directors Meeting and New Year’s Party’ at Dreamplus Gangnam in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Among the 22 directors, 18 attended the meeting, including Chairman Park Jaewook and CEO Choi Sungjin. The agenda regarding the recommendation of the next chairman was also discussed due to the expiration of the term of Park Jaewook, CEO of Socar, the 3rd chairman.

Through the board meeting, CEO Han was unanimously elected as the 4th chairman candidate. CEO Han, an entrepreneur and former U.S. lawyer, founded Wizdom, a bus ride-sharing service using smart applications, in 2009. In 2010, he launched the smart bus ‘eBus’ and currently provides services to over 170 companies and industrial complexes in Korea.

Kospo stated, “CEO Han has been serving as a director since 2018 and has built high trust among entrepreneurs,” adding, “With his experience in regulatory response, he is a person who can smoothly perform Kospo’s role in policy response and strengthen community cohesion.”

This year’s business goal is set as ‘Focus on the essence, virtuous cycle of startup and ecosystem community.’ Kospo plans to promote various projects under three pillars: activation of the Kospo community and membership, strengthening startup policy support, and reinforcing the foundation for global growth. In particular, it will focus on diversifying activities based on regular members, emphasizing the activation of the startup entrepreneur community, which is the founding purpose. To this end, it will establish and enhance various divisions, regional and industrial councils, strengthen membership benefits such as the Entrepreneur Club and All-round Care, expand exchanges with ecosystem partners, and focus on regulatory improvement and policy production performance through strengthened cooperation with the National Assembly and government policies.

Kospo plans to finalize the approval of major agendas, including the election of the chairman, at the regular general assembly scheduled for the 27th of next month.

At the New Year’s party held after the board meeting, about 170 startup member companies and ecosystem partners from various fields attended. Startup entrepreneurs and CEOs such as Chairman Park, Minji Kim of V-Dream, Taeun Koo of Tech & Ventures, Hyunho Park of Kmong, and Junchul Yang of OnOffMix participated together. Officials including Jungwook Lim, Director of Startup Venture Innovation at the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Geumryong Lee, Chairman of Challenge and Sharing, and Yongkwan Lee, Chairman of the Korea Early-stage Investment Institutions Association (CEO of Bluepoint Partners), also attended, spending time for mutual exchange.

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