Pukyong National University

PKNU student won the excellence award at the idea contest hosted by Ministry of oceans and fisheries

- student Yim Myeong-Soo … awarded with an idea for a platform using by-products of fishery processing.

Yim Myeong-Soo, a student (4th grader) majoring in finance economics at Pukyong National University (Jang Young-Soo) received the excellence award (chairman's award of the Korea fisheries infrastructure public agency) at the 9th information service and business idea contest hosted by the Ministry of oceans and fisheries. The prize money was a million won.

In this contest held to discover creative ideas based on big data to innovate administrative services and create new business opportunities, student Yim Myeong-Soo won the prize for the idea of 'building a comprehensive platform for seafood by-products'.

His idea was evaluated as a good idea to expand the added value of aquatic processing by-products and obtain a virtuous cycle of resources through the database of seafood processing by-products.

From this idea, student Yim Myeong-Soo drew attention by presenting 'Mulmaru', a new platform that collects and manages data on by-products that are estimated to generate 1.31 million tons a year, such as fish bones, fins, intestines, and shells, generated in the seafood processing process.

By using this platform, information on emissions of fishery processing by-products reported by private companies can be utilized. Through this, he expects that by converting by-products into biomaterials, it will produce high value-added products or induce bio companies to secure industrial raw materials and substitute imported raw materials, and at the same time obtain effects such as a virtuous cycle of resources and increase in income of fishing villages.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries first selected the winners of the contest through document screening and final presentation screening, and plans to reflect the ideas selected as the winners this year in related policies and support their commercialization. <Pukyong Today>