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GOLFZON NEWDIN Group announced on the 4th that Chairman Young-Chan Kim received an honorary doctorate in Technology Management from Chungnam National University’s Department of Technology Commercialization Convergence on 5\/3 (Wed).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The conferral ceremony, held at Daedeok Hall of the Jeongsimhwa International Cultural Center at Chungnam National University, was attended by Chungnam National University President Jin-Suk Lee, GOLFZON NEWDIN Group Chairman Young-Chan\nKim, Alumni Association President Do-Mook Kang, and other distinguished guests. The Department of Technology Commercialization Convergence was newly established this year to nurture specialists in the practical commercialization of technology linked to regional industries and to contribute to qualitative growth across the entire process of utilizing and disseminating domestic public research outcomes, and Chairman Young-Chan Kim was the first to receive a degree from the newly established department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chairman Young-Chan Kim, who laid the foundation for the development of the domestic and global golf industry by developing and distributing an unprecedented golf simulator that converges golf, IT, and culture, founded the screen golf venture company \u2018GOLFZON\u2019 in May 2000. GOLFZON subsequently transitioned to a holding company structure and has grown into a global golf platform company that now provides total golf services including \u25b3field golf \u25b3golf equipment distribution \u25b3golf academies, taking on the present form of GOLFZON NEWDIN Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In particular, Chairman Young-Chan Kim has continuously emphasized the importance of IT capabilities and talent-focused management in running the group, and based on this, GOLFZON invests around 5% of its revenue into research and development (R&D) and staffs 40% of its workforce with R&D personnel, striving to develop the domestic golf industry and to raise the standing of Korean golf around the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, Chairman Young-Chan Kim, recognized for having completely transformed the paradigm of the global golf industry, has been honored for his contributions over the years\u2014starting with becoming the first venture company in the Daedeok Research Complex to achieve KRW 100 billion in revenue in 2008, followed by \u25b3Grand Prize at the Daedeok Special Zone Innovative Technology Commercialization Awards (2009) \u25b3Presidential Commendation at the Sports Industry Awards (2009) \u25b3Order of Industrial Service Merit, Stone Tower Medal, at the Venture Company Awards (2009) \u25b3Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Award (Grand Prize) at the Korea New Growth Management Awards (2016) \u25b3No. 1 in \u2018Golf\nInc\u2019’s \u20182022 Most Influential People in the Asian Golf Industry\u2019 (2023), among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GOLFZON NEWDIN Group Chairman Young-Chan Kim said, \u201cI believe the core of GOLFZON NEWDIN Group’s management success is its ceaseless investment in research and development for IT innovation. I sincerely thank President Jin-Suk Lee and the university officials who conferred the degree, our employees who have shared the ups and downs with us all along, and the Daejeon local community that has given us so much interest and affection,\u201d adding, \u201cI wish Chungnam National University boundless development, and going forward, together with the growth of our company, I will do my utmost to lead the advancement of domestic technological capabilities and, furthermore, to showcase the excellence of Korea’s\nIT technology on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, GOLFZON NEWDIN Group fulfills its corporate social responsibility through a variety of social contribution activities, including \u25b3fostering young golf prospects and players \u25b3hosting the KPGA Regular Tour to contribute to the development of the domestic golf industry \u25b3creating jobs for the underprivileged \u25b3sponsoring and volunteering for vulnerable groups in the local community. In 2019, it received the \u2018Gangnam-gu District Mayor’s Award\u2019 in recognition of its contributions to social contribution activities in the Gangnam-gu area, and since 2020 it has donated KRW 500 million in neighborly love funds to the Daejeon Community Chest of Korea every year, joining the Gold membership of the \u2018Honor Society for Giving\u2019 in 2021\u2014actively practicing neighborly love and putting into practice a management philosophy of sharing and consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GOLFZON NEWDIN Group announced on the 4th that Chairman Young-Chan Kim received an honorary doctorate in Technology Management from Chungnam National University’s Department of Technology Commercialization Convergence on 5\/3 (Wed). The conferral ceremony, held at Daedeok Hall of the Jeongsimhwa International Cultural Center at Chungnam National University, was attended by Chungnam National University President Jin-Suk Lee, GOLFZON NEWDIN Group Chairman Young-Chan Kim, Alumni Association President Do-Mook Kang, and other distinguished guests. The Department of Technology Commercialization Convergence was newly established this year to nurture specialists in the practical commercialization of technology linked to regional industries and to contribute to qualitative growth across the entire process of utilizing and disseminating domestic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"family":[15],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-center","category-press-release","family-golfzon-korea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"family","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/family?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}