Stony Brook University SUNY Korea

The Incheon Global Campus Foundation (IGCF) recently organized the 2023 IGC Startup Idea Contest and Mentoring Event, allowing all students, graduates, faculty members, and staff at IGC to participate in this event. The competition welcomed creative submissions covering a wide range of subjects and business concepts. Numerous teams submitted their ideas, and nine teams were selected after going through the paper screening and presentation stages. Seven out of the selected nine teams were from the SUNY Korea community.

SUNY Korea received several awards, including Best Award, Excellence Award, and Creativity Award.

• Team Onefi, whose members are Hosung Cheon and Sohee Park from SBU, won the Best Award with their idea, “Connection Middleware to Activate Simple Payment of Virtual Assets.”
• Team The Grid Laboratory, whose members are Hyungmin Park, Chanyoung Na, Byungchul Cho, Ryangjin Lee, and Joon Jeon from SBU, won the Excellence Award with their topic, “Brand Marketing through Games.”
• FIT student Mingyu Shin also won the Excellence Award with his item, “Safety Tripod Used by Throwing.”

Lastly, Team Moongchi, Team K-ARE, and Team JM won the Creativity Award.

• Team Moongchi, whose members are Sunkyu Moh, Garim Won, Ikjun Chang, Eui-jin Jeong, and Sungwon Choi from SBU, submitted their documentation, titled “One-Stop Brand Launch Helper.”
• Team K-ARE, whose members are Jisub Lim and Seyeon Choi from SBU, submitted their idea, “Overseas Nursing Care People Matching Platform.”
• Team JM, whose members are Sungmin Lee, Gilho Kim, and Yunjeong Noh from SBU, won the prize with their idea “Platform that Connects Small-scale Producers in Developing Countries and Consumers in Developed Countries.”

Written by Student Reporter, Hyeonha Hwang
(hyeonha.hwang@stonybrook.edu)