Kookmin University students win top prizes in autonomous driving hackathon

Kookmin University students swept an autonomous driving hackathon held at Park Habio in Seoul’s Songpa District July 14-16, winning the top three prizes. The university said Friday that its SMT team took the grand prize by demonstrating stable driving performance and highly sophisticated algorithms at the 2026 SEA:ME Hackathon. Two other teams, SKY and KUUVe, won the top excellence award and the gold prize, respectively.

Teams from Keimyung University, Chungbuk National University and Sun Moon University earned silver, bronze, technical and design awards. Now in its fourth year, the SEA:ME Hackathon is an inter-university competition jointly organized by Kookmin University’s Convergence and Open Sharing System (COSS) Future Mobility Project Group and Hanyang University’s ERICA Intelligent Robotics Project Group, with support from the Volkswagen Group WE: Foundation. SEA:ME stands for Software Engineering in Automotive and Mobility Ecosystems.

Designed to cultivate experts with practical expertise in future mobility and mobility software, this year’s competition brought together 117