청년 취업시장이 여전히 어렵지만 이에 굴하지 않고 아이디어와 열정으로 자신의 길을 개척해나가는 꽃청년들이 있다. 창조경제혁신센터와 콘텐츠코리아랩을 통해 자신의 꿈을 찾은 미래의 주역 5인을 소개한다.
The "Creative Economy Innovation Center" is a forward base for the creative economy promoted by the government and supports start-ups, SME innovation, and regional specialized projects. It is installed in 17 cities and provinces nationwide, and is characterized by various specialized projects for each center.
Momo (Lee Joon-hyeop (35)) / Lee was in charge of video production at a broadcasting station and founded "Momo," a web drama production service company, in 2014. Since its foundation, it has won major start-up competitions, including the grand prize at the Chung Joo-young Startup Competition, and has attracted 1 billion won in investment from K Cube Ventures (a Kakao affiliate).
For those who want to start a business, the government, local governments, and support companies will cooperate to support all services related to start-up and innovation, from mentoring to technology development, financial support, legal patents, marketing, and global expansion. So far, 12,129 cases have received start-up mentoring and consulting, and 4,276 cases have led to prototype production. The amount of investment funds raised for start-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises is 587.9 billion won, of which 98.6 billion won has been executed.
Langsmarket (Baek Sun-ho Baek (36)) / Baek quit a stable IT-related company and established ‘Langsmarket’ with three like-minded colleagues last year. Currently, we are providing professional translation services at reasonable prices to global companies and creating an ecosystem where excellent translators around the world can work under their own names.
If you have cultural content, knock on the door of the Korea Creative Content Agency's Content Korea Lab. Under the slogan "The Base Camp of the Cultural Content Industry, where imagination leads to creation and creation leads to start-ups," six more centers were established in Incheon, Gyeonggi (Pangyo), Busan, Daegu, Jeonbuk (Jeonju), and Gyeongbuk (Andong) and a total of 11 centers will be built by 2017.
Open Gallery (Park Eui-gyu (36)) /After working on management strategies, Park established Open Gallery in 2013, a service that rents expensive artworks. It received 2 billion won from DSC Investment last year. The public is consuming art easily, and artists are creating a "healthy art ecosystem" that can lay the foundation for their work activities.
The biggest feature of Content Korea Lab among start-up support centers is that all content support is systematized. Even if there are only ideas, there are programs that can be created into content through mentoring by experts. It is a space where you can freely spread cultural creativity and ideas, which are the core of the creative economy. Since its opening in May 2014, more than 140,000 people have used the facility so far. There have also been a series of companies that have succeeded in starting their own businesses through Content Korea Lab. It has established itself as a startup base camp due to its good performance in sales and external investment.
Studio Musical (Ko Eun-ryeong (36)) / A former studio musical announcer who majored in performing arts at the Korea National University of Arts Theater founded Studio Musical two years ago with the idea of "creating content to watch free of the burden of expensive tickets." It is planning and producing a "Barrier-free" stage performance using an audio theater. Ko is planning and producing ‘barrier-free’ stage performances using an audio theater.
[2016, Road to Hometown for Lunar New Year's Day]