The Seoul Student Company

We are a small hobbyist group of students who meet up after school to design better software for students and hack away our frustrations towards modern LMS. We breathe 辛 ramen and hate hagwons.

Building the OS for students

Our goal is simple. There’s an abundance of educational resources, events, and communities scattered across billions of sites. We organize all this information into a neatly designed web index. The more frictionless the browsing experience is, the easier students will learn. One would assume the LMS tools of today would have addressed this.

Relevant metrics

Some figures that inform our goals.

global LMS users

71%

73,800,000

US afterschool demand

19,400,000

41%

83%

73,865

Korean cram schools

Hover on components for details

Modern LMS tools and extracurricular sites are often built on clunky, outdated software, but critically, these systems are so unintuitively designed that students often miss out on meaningful opportunities. This means a student grows up without ever hearing of ISEF or WSDC, misses the deadline for a local essay competition because their teacher hadn't heard of it before, or loses out on a department internship because the school decided to host its information on Facebook or some AOL era site.

Proposed solution

Frictionless, easily navigable micro-sites and web indexes.

Modern LMS tools and extracurricular sites are often built on clunky, outdated software, but critically, these systems are so unintuitively designed that students often miss out on meaningful opportunities. This means a student grows up without ever hearing of ISEF or WSDC, misses the deadline for a local essay competition because their teacher hadn't heard of it before, or loses out on a department internship because the school decided to host its information on Facebook or some AOL era site.

These completely avoidable knowledge silos result in systemically inequitable access to extracurriculars, scholarships, and mentorship. It is by completely redesigning the digital infrastructure built around education that we can increase the searchability, affordability, and awareness of these opportunities. How exactly are students supposed to excel, when they don’t know what they could excel in?


Think of us as a group of kids with Post Kumon Stress Disorder, hacking away at silly projects as a way to give back to the communities we love, but importantly, to orchestrate a violent overthrow of hagwons, Korean cram schools, and expose students to educational alternatives, because students genuinely learn more from hackathons, debate clubs, and science fairs than they do from endless KSAT mock exams.

Our little projects

Most of our projects are just CRUDesque solutions to specific student inconveniences. Honestly, the solution can be as simple and snackable as a public Airtable spreadsheet aggregating useful links, because sometimes all a student needs is a nudge in the right direction.

Proposed solution

Frictionless micro-sites and web indexes.

Click to view static prototypes

Proposed solution

Frictionless micro-sites and web indexes.

Click to view static prototypes

Who are we?

We were the first Korean team to receive the Medici Grant from Danielle Strachman, GP of the 1517 Fund, co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship, and early backer of Ethereum, Figma, Loom, and others.


Our previous projects placed 8th in Y Combinator’s SUS Pitch Competition, were nominated for Site of the Year by Framer, won a global case competition hosted by UC Berkeley, and were featured on the front page of read.cv.


If you’re a student based in Seoul (or not) with even a passing interest in building meaningful tools for students, get in touch.


Seoul Student Company is run by Joonseo Chang.

Our little projects

Most of our projects are just CRUDesque solutions to specific student inconveniences. Honestly, the solution can be as simple and snackable as a public Airtable spreadsheet aggregating useful links, because sometimes all a student needs is a nudge in the right direction.

© 2024 The Seoul Student Company

Built with ramen and care 🌱

Relevant metrics

Some figures that inform our goals.

global LMS users

73,800,000

71%

US afterschool demand

19,400,000

41%

Korean cram schools

73,865

83%

Click on components for details

Relevant metrics

Some figures that inform our goals.

global LMS users

73,800,000

71%

US afterschool demand

19,400,000

41%

Korean cram schools

73,865

83%

Click on components for details

© 2024 The Seoul Student Company

Built with ramen and care 🌱