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Future Entrepreneurs' Society (FES) held a '2014 Business Modeling Competition' on Jun 7, Saturday at Hyundai-Motor Hall. Hundreds of audience have participated in this competition, and it was also attended by Professor Icksoo Kim and Juseok Seo, CEO of Wall Street English.
‘2014 Business Modeling Competition’ is a conference that designs and verifies a new business model by applying the knowledge, which was obtained through the seminars of one semester. Four teams have participated, and the grand prize was given to the Duty team who suggested the ‘Travel Maker’ of finding a travel companion platform model, and the Challenge team who suggested ’N Bread’ of sharing a taxi matching service received the excellence award.
“I was so nervous in giving a presentation in front of professors and judge panel, but I’m very glad to have a good result by preparing a product endeavored with our team members.”, Young Hoon Jo (KUBS 10), manager of Duty team expressed his impression.
FES is a one and only entrepreneur society as well as the first society in business academic area in Korea University. In the case studies occurring 4 to 5 times at each semester, academic activities from the start-up to the business case of Corporations such as SK Telecom and SONY are performed. Startups which have their origin in FES - Mom Tree, Urbal Pot and Zzai Seoul, have recently attracted attention.