The Korea Federation of Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) said on the 16th that they selected Chief Executive Park Jang-seon of Today Art and Chief Executive Jeong Seong-eun of WeverseMind as "Proud Small Businesspeople" for the fourth quarter of 2025.
Today Art is a corporations that makes K-pop album jackets and merchandise, as well as photo books. Through high-quality printing services, it contributed to the global growth of the K-pop industry, and it earned ISO, FSC, and G7 Master certifications, gaining international recognition for excellence in quality and environmental management systems.
Chief Executive Park Jang-seon of Today Art introduced state-of-the-art facilities and process automation to create a healthy and pleasant workplace that minimizes the equity and ink smell characteristic of the printing industry. The company has also maintained smooth labor-management relations for 21 years without labor disputes, and it is credited with building a management structure that grows together with employees by supporting long-service and outstanding-employee awards, overseas training, and self-development.
By establishing a scholarship foundation, the company has supported scholarships and lectures by notable figures to promote youth education and development, and it is taking the lead in building a brighter and healthier society through continued donations and volunteer work for vulnerable groups.
WeverseMind is a leading domestic education content corporations that operates the English conversation service "NaeSaegim." Based on its proprietary learning method and content that boosts learning immersion, it has secured a cumulative 2.05 million learners and established itself as a trusted English learning service.
Chief Executive Jeong Seong-eun of WeverseMind designed the "NaeSaegim learning method," which aims at natural language acquisition rather than rote memorization, and obtained the first U.S. local patent in Korea, while also securing 11 patents domestically, earning recognition for its technological capabilities.
Recently, the company has focused on developing Edtech that combines AI and ICT technologies, unveiling an AI pronunciation clinic system that closely supports pronunciation correction and the AI English conversation service "Talkease," and it is strengthening its foundation for global growth by entering overseas markets such as Japan and Vietnam.
In addition, to foster an equal educational environment, it donates NaeSaegim language devices to children's centers, alternative schools, educational institutions in remote mountainous regions, and young adults preparing for independence, and it is also dedicating efforts to global social contribution by supporting the recovery of Vietnamese patients with cleft lip and palate in partnership with the Ilwoong Cleft Lip and Palate Medical Volunteer Group.
Meanwhile, the Proud Small Businessperson is a program in which KBIZ and the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) discover and honor outstanding businesspeople who have contributed to national industry development through management rationalization, export growth, and technology development, to promote the spread of exemplary small-business leadership.