SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (SKKU), SEOUL, KOREA

Students of Sungkyun C-School, building and realizing the new model of convergence education, have made great results in various fields, such as start-up and advertisement.

Team Nonmoonnamu of C-School Start-up Program Selected as Prep Entrepreneur of "2018 Smart Venture Campus Recruitment"

The team consists of Jihee Jeon (Business Administration 12), San Kim (Chemistry 14), Juseong Ha (Chemistry 14) and Eunjung Joo (Chemistry 15). 2018 Smart Venture Campus Recruitment is a government program that finds young entrepreneurs with knowledge of service industry and gives concentrated support on every process of their start-ups. The selected team will receive about 50 million won in funding. Team Nonmoonnamu completed all the courses of the C-School Program, including the Basics of Start-ups, Presentations, and Business Plan Writing. The team pointed out the expert in-depth mentoring of the C-School Start-up Program as their critical success factor. Sungkyun C-School is giving continuous support to Team Nonmoonnamu after the students' completion of the program to meet their challenges and find success.

C-School Certification Program Students Launched "Sea Urchin Soy Sauce" with Funding from ARAMCO

Daeun Kim (Psychology 13) of the C-School Certification Program launched "Sea Urchin Soy Sauce" with two other SKKU students with funding from global company ARAMCO. She came up with an idea and a story for reducing the number of sea urchins as one solution to the sea desertification problem. She also commercialized the product with help from Seoul Start-up Hub's incubating start-up "WeCook" and gave a presentation on the product at CJ "OliveCon". Daeun said that lessons from the C-School Basic Convergence Project motivated her to come up with the idea.

C-School Project Team Awarded at International Student Advertisement Contests

Team "Ceci n'est pas une publicite (This Is Not an Advertisement)" was accepted into the "2018 CANNES FUTURE LIONS", which is the most authoritative international student advertisement contest. The team also won other international awards, such as "Creativity International Awards", "Chip Shop Awards", and "Montreux Advertising Award". Team Ceci n'est pas une publicite consists of Seung-uk An (Global Business Administration 14), Ilmo Koo (Business Administration 13), Hojun Hyun (Business Administration 13), Yuna Lee (Library and Information Science 13), and Myeongji Choi (Economics 16). The students said that C-School Project has been a great support, providing between different fields and in-depth study with academic advisers.