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Yahoo Korea's Star Search: "The Next Jerry Yang"

Other | 2006/09/12 16:55 | Web 2.0 Asia

Yahoo Korea has announced the winners for its annual business plan competition, dubbed "In Search of the Next Jerry Yang." (Link in Korean)

The first place winner, a 19 year old college girl named Hane Kim, won the cash prize of 10 million Won (that's approximately 10K US dollars - you probably gasped thinking I meant 10 mil dollars, heheh)

Next Jerry Yangs?

Ms Kim's $10K idea, titled "The Guy", is reported to center around the notion of the six degrees of separation

(the Kevin Bacon story). Although there's no further details about the business plan, I'm assuming a service where user can find the people connected to him/her through some other people. ("Geez, I didn't know George Bush was connected to me via only 4 connections" you know.)

By the way, turning to amateurs for inspirations and new ideas is nothing new - a practice done even by the mobile phone manufacturers for new phone design.