2020 Spring Online CHOO CHOO Day Successfully Held

The ‘2020 Spring CHOO CHOO Day(hereinbelow CHOO CHOO DAY)’, which was hosted by Korea University Business School (Dean = Jaewook Kim) and organized by Startup Institute (Director = Hicheon Kim) as well as the Crimson Startup Support Center, was held at KUBS Startup Station ‘The Stage’ of KUBS Main Building on May 15^th (Friday). CHOO CHOO Day is an event where young entrepreneurs who moved into Startup Incubation Platform of KUBS present their products and services after the incubation program which lasts from 6 months to 1 year. Due to the current situation of COVID-19, the event was provided as live online streaming with about 100 investors, industry insiders and prospective entrepreneurs who showed their keen interest.

“Since this is a very important event where 6 teams can deliver their outcome of hard work, I hope they can achieve good results,” said Jaewook Kim, Dean of KUBS, and gave words of congratulation by saying “We ask for your generous attention and support to expand and operate the system for students' start-ups”. A welcome speech by Jungbin Moon, Director of Iljin Center for Startup Incubation followed by asking for continuous attention, “I would like to kindly ask for warm encouragement and advice to all teams for their tireless passion that helped holing this event even with many difficulties caused by COVID-19”.

Following 6 teams out of 12 teams in the Startup Station have participated in the event: △ ‘AMP’ – a brokerage platform of Idol goods for overseas K-POP fans △ ‘The Seasonal’ that develops simple food using seasonal marine products in each region △ ‘POPLE’ – a free mask vending machine that allows free supply of masks △ ‘Dalgona’ - a platform which allows Celebrities to film cookies themselves and to make marketing possible △ ‘Morit’ – a customized nutrition counseling food curator for seniors △ ‘Petpeotalk’ – a chatting service with pets. Each team was provided 5 minutes of presentation time and 7 minutes of Q&A time.

Startup Institute Director Hicheon Kim gave a closing speech by encouraging students, “Enterprises in the KUBS Startup Station will motivate other students and revitalize the university ecosystem, ultimately making a major contribution to the society”.

Gain Shin and Gunwoo Park, representative of ‘POPLE’ gave their thoughts of participating in this CHOO CHOO day, “We were able to gain a lot of support from the constructive feedback and a message of support through the event”. Kihyun Joo and Eunji Kim, representative of ‘Morit’ said “It was a meaningful experience which allowed us to take a step forward”.

Meanwhile, KUBS Startup Institute provides a lot of support to future entrepreneurs by allowing them to realize innovation through sharing and cooperation. There are about 63 startups which graduated from KUBS Startup Station as of May, and the next future entrepreneurs of the Startup Institute will be selected from the upcoming startup contest ‘2020 Startup Express Summer Season’ in June 19^th.