LG Global Challenger is the contest exhibition for 4-year-course college students or graduate students. Participants make teams of 4 members and choose a subject among humanity, society, science, or environment. Then they visit domestic and international regions to investigate their subject with the sponsorship of LG. Gool Luck, CBNU’s LG Global Challenger team, has been the only successful team since 2009. We heard stories about the team and LG Global Challenger from Gool Luck.




Can you introduce yourselves?

  We are an LG Global Challenger team of CBNU. There are four team members and we have our own roles respectively. Ha Dae-hyeok(’10, Dept. of International Business) is the leader of the team, doing translation, and Jo Ah-hae(’16, Dept. of Urban Engineering, master’s course) is  a designer and arranges our reports. Son Seul-gi(’16, Dept. of Urban Engineering, master’s course) is taking charge of making videos and researching data, and Lee Min-yeong(’16, Dept. of Urban Engineering, master’s course) makes presentation materials and assists with design work. Our team is researching about reef balls which are made of oyster shells.

Is there a secret to winning a 22:1 competition and succeeding in the contest?

  Similar to other teams, there was nothing special. We were so earnest that we stayed up for a few nights. You should have confidence and be able to say, “We did our best”, until you get into the interview room. I think there are 2 keys. First, teamwork is very important. And most important of all is the subject. We agonized over the subject for 1 month. We thought that if the subject is nice, it will attract the judges. However, while you are doing the project, there might be a slump when the subject seems like a mistake. You should be careful at that time. You must have conviction in your subject.

Your team chose the subject reef balls made from oyster shells. How did your team come to decide on that subject?

  We checked which subjects have been selected in the recent 5 years. As a result, LG preferred sustainable or eco-friendly technologies, so we decided to find such a subject. Then, we accidentally saw the news about treatment of oyster shells. Tongyeong-si, occupying about 80% of oyster production, is said to be the most committed place. We thought that there may be a new way to use them. In the meanwhile, we found that in the USA, they use reef balls as artificial fishing banks and seawalls by attaching oyster shells to balls. Using reef balls is efficient because they can be utilized for treating oyster shells, recycling oysters, and also creating habitats for fish, so we decided to choose reef balls as our subject.

There are many students involved in LG Global Challenger. Can you give some advice to CBNU students who are preparing for LG Global Challenger?

  LG Global Challenger gives you a chance to meet and talk with other university’s students, and there are many duties when doing projects such as visiting overseas organizations as a university student, but you will be sponsored financially, so this would be a special chance and it will give you a memorable recollection. When starting contests or works, the trouble is an inefficient use of time. However, nothing will happen if you just check things and wait. Make it a challenge. Then you can get such a sweet result like us. I hope you can have a mind of ‘Just do it!’ rather than ‘It takes lots of time!’.

By Yoo Jin-kyu
 jk37@cbnu.ac.kr