The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said on the 5th it will hold a campus tour of 11 major universities nationwide to promote the "Startup for All Project" to young people and college students across the country and raise interest in starting a business.
The Startup for All Project is a government-supported startup talent development platform that allows anyone with just an idea to try launching a business. It has been recruiting innovative entrepreneurs since on the 26th of last month.
This nationwide university campus tour event was designed as a program to lower the barriers to entrepreneurship that have been difficult for the project's core target group—young people—to access, and to let them easily experience starting a business.
First, participants can take a "startup propensity test experience" with simple Q&A to check their startup tendencies and, based on the results, identify their personal startup style, such as strategist type, challenger type, leader type, or innovator type. If they post verification photos taken at a photo zone set up with the "Startup for All" concept and leave reviews on their personal social media (SNS), prizes will be offered.
The campus tour will begin at Kangwon National University on the 6th and run through the 17th at 11 universities nationwide (Seoul National University, Hanyang University, Sungkyunkwan University, Chungbuk National University, Chungnam National University/KAIST, Jeonbuk National University, Chonnam National University, Pusan National University, and Kyungpook National University).
In addition, to publicize the business details of Startup for All, offline briefings are being held in 16 regions for about a month starting on the 2nd. Some regions will be livestreamed on the official YouTube channel of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS).
Cho Kyung-won, director general for startup policy at the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), said, "This campus tour will be an opportunity to show college students that starting a business is not difficult or special, but an option that anyone can try," adding, "We will foster an environment where anyone can take on entrepreneurship without fear of failure."