The student extracurricular ecosystem lacks the most basic web infrastructure. That’s why event calendars are being run on Sheets, student clubs are building expensive sites on Wix, and school districts face unequal access to information on opportunities because of outdated bulletin boards and legacy LMS software.
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.
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.