The 2019 Social Value Research Competition awards ceremony was held at the LG-POSCO Building at Korea University on November 12(Tue). The 2019 Social Value Research Competition was hosted by Korea University Business School and sponsored by the SK SUPEX Promotion Council. About 40 people attended the ceremony, including Jae Wook Kim, Dean of KUBS, Johngseok Bae, Director of IBRE and Jungbin Moon, a professor at KUBS.

"I believe that the undergraduates selected for the Social Value Research Competition are talented people who will become future management leaders and lead social value projects pursued by our society." said Jae Wook Kim, Dean of KUBS.

Through a screening process in June, a total of 10 teams (40 undergraduates) were selected and they conducted research on social values in various fields such as management, welfare, health care, housing, IT, residential human rights, mobility, care for the elderly, and shared economy businesses.

Four teams won the award at the 2019 Social Value Research Competition, which marked the first time this year. The award had three categories: the KUBS Dean Award(Grand Prize) the SK Social Value Award(Best Excellence Award), and the SK Social Value Award(Excellence Award). The KUBS Dean Awaed was won by Baek Ha-won, Lee Kyung-min, Lee Seo-yeon and Song Hyun-ah, who studied "How to foster the Korean social capital market." The SK Social Value Award(Best Excellence Award) was awarded to the 'Creating Social and Economic Values through the Project to Create Local Society AAC ZONE', while the SK Social Value Award(Excellence Award) was awarded by a team that studied 'How to Set Up a Social Stock Exchange for Social Enterprises' and 'Benchmarking South Korea's Social Economy Ecosystem'.