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Debate Korea (also referred to as DK), non-profit organization under the non-profit corporation Discovery Korea, was established in 2016 to expand the Republic of Korea's domestic communication culture. Seokho Daniel Yoon, the first Ivy League coach in Korea, and Sang-jin Oh, a former announcer and current broadcaster of Korea, established Debate Korea in order to spread a culture of communication that allows young people to exchange various opinions to Korea and the world. In 2020, it has expanded to Discover Korea, a non-profit corporation affiliated with Gyeonggi Province's foreign policy, to promote the culture and status of Korea overseas and revitalize the communication culture.

Projects
Since its establishment, Debate Korea has been running several debate competitions and educational programs to spread various communication cultures.

Korea World Universities Debating Championships 2021 (Korea WUDC 2021)
WUDC, which marks its 41st anniversary in 2021, was hosted by Debate Korea and had more than 2,000 participants from 380 universities in 90 countries. At a time when major events around the world have been canceled and postponed one after another due to COVID-19, Debate Korea held the first non-face-to-face WUDC.The tournament was sponsored by several corporations such as Korea Tourism Organization.

Debate Korea officially declared in August 2018 to host the 2021 competition and prepared for the competition for three years. As a result, at the WUDC General Assembly held in Cape Town, South Africa in February 2019, members unanimously (88-0) confirmed the WUDC to be held in Korea in 2021. Korea became the first Northeast Asian country to host WUDC.

Croatia’s Zagreb University won and made another history with the first-ever victory of a non-English speaking university in WUDC.

2021 Seoul Youth Policy Debate
2021 Seoul Youth Policy Debate is a competition where young people from all over the country gather to propose their own policy ideas and discuss the effectiveness of policies. The competition was organized by Debate Korea, hosted by Yonhap News Agency and Seoul Institute. It was sponsored by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Yonhap News TV. This competition provided an opportunity for young people to point out their own social problems and present policy ideas to solve them. Participants wrote their own policy proposals in four areas: Fair and Coexisting Society, Work and Future, Life and Leisure, and Youth Life Space. A total of 97 teams participated and 32 teams advanced to finals after the preliminary document screening stage. Elimination rounds were held at Seoul National University and Yonhap News Agency as an offline debate competition. Each team was given an experience of a process of specifying policy proposals through consultation with policy experts at the Seoul Institute. In addition, 1 million won was provided to the 32 teams that advanced to the elimination rounds. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Yonhap News Agency CEO Sung Ki-hong, former presidential speech secretary Kang Won-guk (author of “President’s Writing”), Professor Park Hyung-joon (Professor of Sungkyunkwan University’s Graduate School of State), Park Won-ik (author of “Not Fair”) and Kim Seung-yeon(head of the Seoul Institute), were the judges for the final round. The champion of 2021 Seoul Youth Policy Debate were given a prize of 10 million won and an opportunity to participate in the “Seoul Youth Policy Special Advisor” activity to review and advise the city's youth policy.

Debate Korea Open(former Seoul Open)
Debate Korea Open (former Seoul Open) is the largest international debate competition in Korea in British parliamentary format. 100 teams from more than 20 countries joined the international stage with a common interest in “debate.” Debate Korea Open serves as a venue for exchanges as well as competition among participants. It is a place of academic exchange where domestic participants can experience a high quality of overseas debate culture and a place of cultural exchange where overseas participants can experience and learn about Korean culture. The 2017 and 2018 champion of this competition won the AirAsia-sponsored Maldives Travel Ticket, and the 2019 champion won the Malaysia Travel Ticket.