Dear Sir or Madam,
Greetings from Seoul National University, we sincerely hope our message finds you all well and healthy! This is Hyungsun Shin, an administrative staff member of the office of International Affairs at SNU Business school. Here I write this e-mail to ask you for cooperation in promoting our startup competition.
The DB-SNU Global Startup Challenge, a start-up competition for college students singled out from the top universities of seven Asian countries, celebrates its second anniversary in 2021.
The DB-SNU Global Startup Challenge event gives top students in Asia a chance to grow into value creating leaders through firsthand experience launching a mock startup. Students get advising on the basics of business idea formation, determining product market fit, product design, product prototyping, testing, team creation, project management, marketing and acquiring investment financing.
This competition is hosted by both the DB Group, a large South Korean company focused on innovative green technology and financial services, and Seoul National University, the number one ranked higher education institution in Korea.
In our inaugural competition, a total of 559 students on 147 teams from 10 Asian countries presented a variety of start-up ideas and business cases so it ended in great success.
National Economics University also had great interest in this competition to encourage many students from NEU to participate in. Thank you for the cooperation and we look forward to your continued support and cooperation this year.
For the 2021 session, the gathering will be held online due to COVID-19.
The theme of the competition will also be limited to the field of startup, and it will become an even more specialized event.
Through active partnership of Seoul National University and National Economics University, we expect talented students from NEU will enter our competition and get positive results.
Here are suggested promotional tactics to create student interest:
- Post information about the competition on your university's main website and include our promotional video.
- Introduce the competition to your department of business administration and university affiliated startup center.
- Promote the competition in the university’s official media outlets such as newspaper, social media and community platforms.
We hope that continuous conversation and active partnership between Seoul National University and National Economics University will turn this competition into a platform for talented Asian college students to grow their entrepreneurial skills.
* Please refer to the attached file for detail about the competition.
* The Korea Management Association (KMA), South Korea's top international event management and HR consulting organization, will participate as the organizer responsible for this competition. KMA’s expert consultant will contact you regarding updates of the competition.
- KMA Contact Information:
Yun Sik Choi; Head of the Center for International Partnership (cys@kma.or.kr),
Kimberly Kim; Team Lead of the Center for International Partnership (kimkim@kma.or.kr)
Best regards,
Hyungsun
Hyungsun Shin (M.A.)
Office of International Relations
SNU Business School
Seoul National University
) +82-2-880-6914
*mere0@snu.ac.kr