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South Korea’s KOSME names four staff for innovation awards
South Korea’s KOSME selected four employees for innovation awards at its headquarters in Jinju on November 11.
The annual program recognizes staff whose work has improved the agency’s operations and services.
This year, KOSME added a new category for AI-related innovation alongside management, business and field innovation.
Judges reviewed 75 cases, selected 14 finalists and chose one winner in each category, with scores from agency evaluators and a public panel.
The winners’ projects included improving policy-funding work, training manufacturing specialists and building a center for AI training in manufacturing.
KOSME said it will support staff ideas that improve public services and help small and medium-sized businesses grow.
South Korea’s Korea SMEs and Startups Agency (KOSME) selected four staff members for its annual innovation awards.
The winners were chosen at the final round of the eighth “KOSME Person of the Year” competition, held on November 11 at the agency’s Jinju headquarters.
The competition assessed 75 innovation cases across four fields and selected 14 finalists.
The four winners represented management innovation, business innovation, field innovation and the newly added AX innovation category.
The awards aim to identify examples of innovation and share their results across the agency.
- Who
- Four KOSME staff members: Kim Seok-gyu, Yoo Tae-yang, Im Bok-gyu and Baek Ji-hoon.
- What
- They were selected as “KOSME Persons of the Year” for innovation.
- When
- November 11, 2026.
- Where
- KOSME’s headquarters in Jinju, South Korea.
- Why
- The annual competition recognizes innovation and aims to share effective examples across the agency.
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KOSME began holding the annual “KOSME Person of the Year” competition.
KOSME held the final round at its Jinju headquarters and selected four winners.
Hankyung reported the award selections.
- Innovation cases assessed
- 75
- Finalists
- 14
- Award winners
- 4
- Award fields
- Management, business, field and AX innovation
- New category
- AX innovation was added for this year
- Management innovation winner
- Kim Seok-gyu, ICT Operations Office team leader
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This year’s KOSME Persons of the Year are the leading innovators who have brought change to the agency with an unceasing spirit of challenge.