The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said it will hold the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship Week Korea event from the 18th to Nov. 23 at venues including Fairmont Ambassador Seoul.
The Global Entrepreneurship Week Korea event brings together entrepreneurship-related activities from the year to share outcomes and seek ways to advance Korea's entrepreneurship.
This year's event is held under the theme "80th anniversary of liberation, leaping forward again with Korea-style artificial intelligence (AI) and entrepreneurship." It explores the entrepreneurship that led national reconstruction after liberation and draws policy implications from history. About 700 people are expected to participate online and offline in a discussion on ways to spread entrepreneurship in the era of AI transformation.
At the opening ceremony that day, following a declaration, commendations were presented to meritorious individuals, including young corporate leaders who contributed to spreading entrepreneurship over the past year, and a keynote speech by Chair Han Jeong-hwa was delivered under the theme "80 years since liberation, 80 years of entrepreneurship."
On the day, awards were given to 26 people in the young corporate leaders category for venture startup promotion, including HeyBranders CEO Ko Hee-un; 10 people in the entrepreneurship dissemination and promotion merit category; 7 for excellent cases in entrepreneurship education; and 19 in the entrepreneurship content contest category. A total of 62 people received commendations.
As the next generation to lead the entrepreneurship ecosystem, collaboration opportunities with venture investors and accelerators were also sought through investor relations (IR) sessions by university students and early-stage startup corporation teams.
On the 20th, a talk concert will be held where anyone interested in starting a business can participate, featuring a field tour of Start - Up sites and a Q&A with young founders.
On the 21st, through "Entrepreneurship Movie Day," AI-related films will be selected and screened, and the event will be run as a public outreach program focused on sharing visitors' insights into the expansion potential of the AI-based cultural industry. On the 22nd, excellent entrepreneurship education cases from elementary, middle, and high schools nationwide that won at the competition for outstanding entrepreneurship education cases will be shared, along with the background for introducing the "Youth Entrepreneurship" textbook and a guide for applying the textbook.