SEOUL

2025 DATES
July 28-August 8

TUITION
$5500+

At the Hudson Lab Ventures Seoul program, we’ll design innovative solutions to a real-world challenge sponsored by a real company or organization.

There will be a limited number of participants. The program will be capped at a maximum of 25 students including 10+ local Korean students and international students hailing from around the globe. All sessions will be conducted in English.

If you live in Korea and would like to learn more, please contact our Korean representative by clicking below.

International Students, please apply here.

The Process.

1. Discovery

The first step in Applied Entrepreneurship is to understand your user and their problem. Using the Design Thinking process, dig deep into the psychology of the users’ unmet need, job to be done, or desired outcome. Apply your insights and creativity to craft a solution, and then communicate your idea effectively.

2. Opportunity Identification

One of the most important decisions you make as an entrepreneur is who you choose to work with! Once teams are chosen, work with your team, a mentor, a designer and an Executive Advisor to design your business and build out a compelling pitch deck that addresses your user’s problem.

3. Pitch

Pitch your business idea to the very executives working on the challenges you’re addressing.

The Learnings.

  • Before you set out to complete any task, ensure you’re solving the right problem. Next, consider how you’re framing the problem. (Thomas Wedell-Wedellsbourg) Welcome to management-level thinking.

  • Whether you like it or not, to sell is human… so start practicing now while the stakes are low. You’ll have to pitch your business idea, pitch yourself as a worthy team member, and then pitch your business to the executives.

  • The beginning of every business opportunity is identifying the unmet need in the market, whether it is a problem not currently solved or the potential for a change in consumption.

  • Put simply, this is how you plan for your business to make money. If you want to go deeper, a business model is “a set of assumptions or hypotheses” (Alex Osterwalder) around the key resources and activities of your value chain in addition to your value proposition, customer relationships, channels, customer segments, cost structures, and revenue streams. When you’ve mastered all that, you win an MBA nerd badge.

  • When you’re an Achievement Robot, team projects are the absolute worst because your grades will not suffer from slackers!!! The dirty disconnect between school and work is that you have to actually work well with other people to achieve anything worthwhile. The happiest most successful people understand what they’re good at and where their shortcomings lie, and they form teams with people who have complementary strengths.

  • Once you’ve been through one session of Hudson Lab Ventures, you can apply to become an HLV Student Lead, where you practice your leadership skills as an innovator.

Program Details


Dates: July 28-Aug 8, 2025

Location: Seoul, Korea

Eligibility: High school students (from rising 10th graders and graduated seniors)

Pricing: $5500 + airfare. We are committed to making our program accessible to all students and reserve seats for students with financial needs.