Daejeon Tourism Organization: Beerlog Team Wins Grand Prize at Startup Competition

Six Awards Presented Across Two Categories:
Pre-Startup and Early/Re-Startup Tracks

Photo by Daejeon Tourism Organization

At the "2025 Daejeon-Sejong Tourism Startup Competition," the Beerlog team, participating in the pre-startup category, was honored with the grand prize for their project "Bread City Beer, Breadmak: The Rebirth of Bread Scraps."

The Daejeon Tourism Organization, together with the Digital HUSS Project Group and the Population Structure Change Response HUSS Project Group of Chungnam National University, successfully concluded the "2025 Daejeon-Sejong Tourism Startup Competition" on September 29.

This competition was designed as an opportunity for participants to present and be recognized for advanced ideas developed through prior tourism startup capacity-building training. Participants engaged in business plan IR presentations, open networking sessions, and other programs, fostering meaningful exchanges and achievements.

The competition featured four teams in the pre-startup category and five individuals in the early and re-startup category, all of whom showcased innovative ideas and business models in the tourism sector. The finals saw fierce competition as a variety of innovative items were proposed, including tourism content, services, and ICT convergence.

As a result of the judging, in the pre-startup category: ▲ The Beerlog team received the grand prize for "Bread City Beer, Breadmak: The Rebirth of Bread Scraps"; ▲ The Daejeon For You team won the excellence award for their "Daejeon Taekhae" regional taxi activation platform for tourists; ▲ The Su-Sang-i Naegero 5jo team earned the merit award for their "Ddanjipga" local restaurant recommendation platform.

In the early and re-startup category: ▲ Lee Eunjung received the grand prize for the experiential stay "Stay Ondal"; ▲ Lee Kwangyoung was awarded the excellence award for the "Japan Local Travel Agency Collaboration Daejeon-Sejong Inbound Korea-Japan Tourism Program"; ▲ Ko Jinseong received the merit award for the "Old Downtown Analog Rental Service."

The organization plans to provide systematic follow-up support, including acceleration, professional consulting, capacity-building and scaling up, as well as market development and promotional support, to ensure that the outstanding ideas discovered through this competition can be commercialized.

President Yoon Sungkuk stated, "This competition was an opportunity to confirm new possibilities for tourism startups in the Daejeon and Sejong regions," adding, "We will continue to actively support creative tourism ideas so that they can lead to revitalizing the local economy and enhancing tourism competitiveness."

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