Ulsan Center for Creative Economy and Innovation (CEO Kim Heon-seong, hereinafter referred to as “Ulsan Center”) announced that its investment company ‘Korea Education Partners Co., Ltd. (CEO Kwon Ki-won and Kwon Jae-woo)’ was finally selected for the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ 2025 Deep Tech Tips (TIPS).
TIPS is a representative private investment-led technology startup support program that focuses on fostering startups with the technology and business potential to lead the global market. Deep Tech TIPS is a larger support program than general TIPS, as it separately selects promising startups in 10 new industries and provides 1.5 billion won in R&D funds over three years.
The Korean Education Partners selected this time are edutech startups that are developing a ‘hyper-personalized, super-intelligent education-specialized multimodal language model’ based on career and department data and education-specialized language model technology accumulated through seven years of research and development (R&D).
Recently, college entrance exams have rapidly changed from a standardized college entrance exam to a student record-centered exam that evaluates each student's characteristics and potential, and the need for hyper-personalized education is growing with the full implementation of the high school credit system in 2025. However, existing expensive consulting services are limited to a small number of students, and general-purpose generative AI has shown limitations due to lack of understanding of the curriculum and information distortion (hallucination).
To solve these problems, Korea Education Partners has developed an AI model with ▲accuracy specialized for the domestic curriculum, ▲personalization that reflects students’ activity history and achievement level, and ▲multimodal functions that provide visual materials such as images and tables, with the goal of providing high-quality customized education at a reasonable cost to the 95% of underprivileged students.
“We are delighted to have our technology and vision recognized through this selection as a Deep Tech Tips,” said Kwon Ki-won, CEO of Korea Education Partners. “With the support of the Ulsan Center, we will continue to create innovative educational services that will help all students reach their full potential.”
Lee Jae-ik, representative fund manager of Ulsan Tips Venture Investment Association, said, “Korea Education Partners is a team with unrivaled capabilities to solve problems in the changing education market with AI technology,” and added, “We will actively support them so that they can lead real changes in the domestic education field through this selection as Deep Tech Tips and become a representative example of K-EduTech that can be used on the global stage.”
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