Sports Promotion Corporation Holds Awards Ceremony for 2025 Sports Industry Start-up Idea Contest
Aug 19, 2025
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At the awards ceremony held at the Seoul Olympic Parktel on the 14th, Kim Sung-hoon, head of the sports industry division, and other award-winning teams attended to encourage each other for their efforts to come up with creative ideas and celebrate the award.
The Sports Corporation selected four teams in the initial start-up category and one team in the preliminary start-up category, and 'Biobites', which proposed 'AI-based sarcopenia risk prediction and biomarker discovery technology', received the top prize. 'Bio Bites' received the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Award and the prize money of KRW 6 million, while 'How about', 'SPOIN' and 'Vbody' and 'Kai Q Tech' received the prize money of KRW 4 million and KRW 2 million, respectively, and the chairman of the Korea Sports Corporation. In addition, all the winning teams were qualified to advance to the final round of 'Challenge! K-Startup'.
Following the award ceremony, the 「Sports Startup Company Connect Day" shared the investment attraction experience and overseas expansion strategies of senior start-up companies supported by the Sports Corporation, such as 'VC', 'PowerfulX', and 'TenCL', which received great response from junior companies.
Meanwhile, the Sports Corporation plans to continue various projects to create an innovative ecosystem for the sports industry, such as supporting start-up companies in each stage of growth and strengthening networking for overseas expansion.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
