The award ceremony for the NUGU Play competition, with total prize money of 84 million won, was held on Thursday 6 December. Over roughly a month from 24 October to 23 November, as many as 240 teams applied across the two divisions — development and ideas — and 14 teams were finally selected after fierce competition.

In the development division, 20 million won went to one Top Excellence team, 15 million won each to two Excellence teams and 5 million won each to five Encouragement teams; in the ideas division, 3 million won went to one Top Excellence team, 2 million won to one Excellence team and 1 million won each to four Encouragement teams — a total of 84 million won in prize money across the two divisions.

Kim Young-in, a fourth-year student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (far right, bottom row), and a joint team from AllUser.net Co., Ltd. (Lee Jung-pil, Jung Kyung-tae) received the Encouragement Award in the development division.