The Asan Nanum Foundation will hold the 'Asan Youth-Preneur' Demo Day, which showcases the entrepreneurship projects of young people, at COEX D Hall in Seoul on the 22nd of next month.
'Asan Youthpreneur' is a youth entrepreneurship education program operated mainly in middle and high schools nationwide. It helps youths develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to entrepreneurship by participating in team projects that discover and solve problems in a startup-like manner.
Asan Youthpreneur Demo Day is a place where students who participated in education for one semester share the results of their entrepreneurship team projects, and is the largest event run by a private organization in the field of entrepreneurship education. This year, it is expected to welcome approximately 2,500 people, including approximately 150 schools and organizations, students, educators, startups, and administrative officials.
This year, Asan Youthpreneur Demo Day will be themed around 'Frontier' from the sayings of Asan Chung Ju-young, the founder of Hyundai. In the keynote speech, Park Hyun-ho, CEO of Kmong, will deliver a message about challenge, growth, and pioneering spirit as a senior entrepreneur. In addition, various programs will be prepared where youth can share creative ideas and insights with peers and senior entrepreneurs, and experience the value of challenge and innovation.
In particular, this year's Demo Day will present the 'Failure Festival', which received a great response last year, with more diverse content. This event was planned to share the enlightenment and learning gained from failure and trial and error by students in the Asan Youthpreneur Team Project, and to spread flexible thinking and a challenging spirit about failure. At the Failure Festival, you can see programs such as ▲Failure Museum (exhibition of failed products and services), ▲World's Best Failure Competition (sharing of failure cases and panel talk), and ▲Smart Failure Class (sharing experience in operating a curriculum with failure as the theme).
The highlight of the event will be a 'pitching session' where students participating in the Asan Youthpreneur will present the results of their projects. Out of the 750 teams that participated in the Asan Youthpreneur education over the past year, 10 teams from middle and high schools that showed excellent project performance will come on stage to present the impact and results of their entrepreneurship team projects.
Also, in the main hall of the Demo Day event venue, approximately 150 elementary, middle, and high school student teams will set up booths to welcome visitors. Students participating in the Asan Youthpreneur will directly introduce their tip project activities and results at the exhibition booths. In addition, nine startups including Dasiipda Research Institute, Book I-Piece, Breeding, Onki, Resource, Tidybee, Trashbusters, Team Playback, and Happy Moonday, as well as MARU, an entrepreneurship platform operated by the Asan Nanum Foundation, will participate with promotional booths to interact with youth, parents, teachers, educators, and entrepreneurs.
At the Demo Day Awards Ceremony, the best teams in the pitching and booth categories will be announced, and a total of 17 million won in prize money will be awarded, including the two grand prize winners, the Minister of Education Award.
Lee Young-bin, head of the Entrepreneurship Team at the Asan Nanum Foundation, said, “The Asan Youthpreneur Demo Day event, where youth share stories of failure and challenges they have personally experienced, will go beyond a simple results-sharing event and become a venue to show that students can pioneer their own future.” He added, “The Asan Nanum Foundation will continue to contribute to creating a foundation where future generations can freely challenge themselves and grow by using failure as an asset, and to revitalizing entrepreneurship education.”
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