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Yong-ho Choi

Yong-ho Choi

Tech Maestro, the youngest CEO of a K-Unicorn company, Chief Happiness Officer (CHO) of Galaxy Corporation, and the youngest attendee at the APEC 2025 Leaders’ Dinner – these are the titles that describe Choi Yong-ho, CEO of Galaxy Corporation. Choi Yong-ho is a recipient of the Presidential Citation for Distinguished Services at the 2025 APEC Leaders’ Meeting, the Global Content Producer Award at the Asia Model Festival, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups Award at the Korea SME Regulatory Innovation Awards, and the Grand Prize in the Metaverse Enterprise category at the Korea Innovation Management Brand Award.

After traveling alone to over 40 countries in his teens, Choi Yong-ho published a book titled Dreams Come True, through which he shared his ideas and attracted supporters before entering the startup arena. He later brought together like-minded peers and participated in the International Creativity Olympiad sponsored by NASA, where they placed 8th.

After attending university, he explored the potential across 100 different business ideas with peers, and in his twenties, boldly ventured into a Hallyu (Korean Wave) startup. He founded K-culture and became the publisher of KBS KWAVE, a Hallyu magazine distributed worldwide. During this period, he popularized the ‘K-‘ branding series and became a leading example of youth entrepreneurship.

After experiencing a business failure in his early thirties, he set out to pursue a venture aimed at realizing boundless imagination through AI-powered metaverse content designed to bring happiness to humanity. He founded the AI enter-tech company Galaxy Corporation and achieved global success with Physical 100 Seasons 1 and 2.

Global K-culture artists – including G-DRAGON, leader of BIGBANG; Song Kang-ho, lead actor in the film Parasite; Taemin of SHINee; and Kim Jong-kook of Turbo – are affiliated with Galaxy Corporation under the leadership of Choi Yong-ho. He is currently engaged in combining these Super IPs with technology.

He also serves as a specially appointed professor at Yonsei University College of Arts and collaborates with KAIST on industry-academia initiatives, contributing to the development of talent in the art-science sector.

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    Galaxy Corporation
  • Profession
    CEO, Chief Happiness Officer (CHO), Tech Maestro

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