40th Austral-Asian Intervarsity Debating Championship

SolBridge International School of Business

Daejeon, Korea Republic

Bid Proposal

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An Introduction to the Bid Document

12 January 2014

Dear Austral-Asian Debating Community,

We are pleased to present our bid document. In it you will find much of the information already published in our

Facebook webpage at http://www.facebook.com/Australasians2015 -- please do proceed there for more details.

We have added more detail to our plans for socials, adjudication, and answers to some questions we received from

the debating community. What we have kept separate from this document is a copy of our financial statement

which is still available on Google Sheets published at

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IlkfULLiUQY8C7OD_1T0XtrXCiNrUpMqVkJdQfqx9C0/edit#gid=1

837669434 this is an adjusted balance from a previously difficult to read and incomplete income statement.

If you have any further questions for the bid team and adjudication team, please contact us through the following

inboxes:

For our Adjudication Team

Gemma Buckley gemma.rose.buckley@gmail.com

Joshua Park joshuapark@post.harvard.edu

Daryl Isla daryl.isla@obf.ateneo.edu

For our Convener and Advisors

Joseph Iesue joeiesue@solbridge.ac.kr

Thank you very much!

The SolBridge Australs 2015 Bid Team

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SolBridge International School of Business

The SolBridge International School of Business was founded in

2007 as the business education arm of Daejeons comprehensive

tertiary institution, Woosong University. Funded by the Woosong

Foundation and led by Dr. John E. Endicott, President of Woosong

University and Vice Chancellor of SolBridge, its vision is to become

an Asian Center of Excellence in Global Business Education.

The school offers both Bachelor in

Business Administration (BBA) and Masters in

Business Administration (MBA) programs. Its

classes are taught in English as it is designed as an

international educational institution. Its student

body is made up of students from over 35

countries around the world. It maintains an

internationally renowned faculty and has recently

pioneered partnerships with universities in the United States to establish 2+2 programs that allow for collaborative

learning in a dual environment for qualified students. Due to such accomplishments, SolBridge won the honor of

becoming the fastest and youngest institution to join the exclusive club of business schools accredited by AACSB

International.

Student life is rich on campus

and off campus for SolBridge students.

Many take semesters abroad in partner

universities in order to immerse

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themselves in new cultures and languages. Central to student life are its own campus organisations. Of these clubs,

SolBridge International is proud to support its own masters of speech and thought, the SolBridge Debate Society.

Due to its general support of its students and student activities, SolBridge and Woosong University were recently

placed among the Top 10 universities in Korea in DongA Daily University Rankings, a ranking system that places a

heavy emphasis on students.

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Tournament Details at a Glance

Organizer:

SolBridge International School of Business

SolBridge Debate Society

Supported by:

Woosong University

Woosong Foundation

Dates:

A 9-day period in July to be decided by both a survey of

participating institutions and the decision of the university

administration after the bid is ratified

Venue:

Preliminary Rounds Venue

Woosong University Campus

60 Classrooms

1 Large Convening Hall with tabbing area (fits 600 people)

1 Cafeteria/Lunch Area

Break Rounds Venue

SolBridge International Campus

11 Classrooms

1 Large Convening Hall (fits 400 people)

2 Cafeteria/Lunch Areas

Accommodation Partners

Yousung Hotel, Daejeon (4-Star)

Riviera Hotel, Daejeon (4-Star)

Socials Partners

Party Pool at Daejeon Science Complex

Yousung and Riviera Hotels

Woosong Art Center

Adjudication Core:

Co-Chief Adjudicators

Ms. Gemma Rose Buckley (Monash)

Professor Joshua Park (SolBridge and Harvard Law)

Deputy Chief Adjudicators

Mr. Tim Blair (Melbourne)

Ms. Joanna Connolly (Sydney Union)

Mr. Daryl Isla (Ateneo)

Mr. Asher Emanuel (Victoria)

Ms. Mai Mokhsein (MARA Technology)

Staff:

Tournament Co-Conveners

Professor Joseph Iesu (SolBridge International)

Ms. Jiwoo Kim (SolBridge Debate Society)

Advisors and Consultants:

Mr. Andy Hume (Glasgow Union)

Mr. Seth Jeesoo Kang (Korea Univ.)

Mr. Loke Wing Fatt (Singapore)

Mr. Cedric Sungryul Park (Underwood Union)

Mr. Geonsub Shin (KIDA)

Mr. Josh Taylor (Griffith)

Registration Fee:

Debaters and Adjudicators

550, 000 Korean Won as a registration fee charge in the moderate expectation of support funding

Team Cap Policy:

Tournament Maximum: 120 teams, (360 debaters)

Judges: 100 judges, N-1 rule will be enforced and

independent judges are liberally welcome.

Accommodations

SolBridge NEAO 2013 billeted participants at the fantastic four star Yousung Hotel Daejeon. Well equipped with

conference facilities and banquet halls, Yousung provided NEAO 2013 with both warm socials and good nights rest. Famous

nationwide for its hot spring, we are certain participants will

have a great time.

Complementary to this, SolBridge Australs also means to use

the hotel next door -- the renowned four star Hotel Riviera

Yuseong. Understanding the new requirements of a 120 team

Australs, the Riviera provides equal quality and comfort

without compromising proximity of teams and judges from

each other.

Please check out their websites at:

http://www.yousunghotel.com/kor/index.do and

http://www.rivierayuseonghotel-daejeon.com/

We are working very hard at ensuring a great stay in one of Asia's favourite destinations.

Break Night and Socials

SolBridge plans to bring you an Australs Break

Night you will never forget. Daejeon is home to

hot springs and water wonders, one of which is

the party pool at the Daejeon Science Expo. It

hosted Daejeon #ONESUMMERNIGHT and

boasts of a large pool that can accommodate 500

people.

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The organising committee has already been promised competitive rates for either a 100 or 120 team tournament that comes

with copious amounts of alcohol and party food for a wet and wild dance party. There will be plenty of tables poolside for

those not wanting to get into the pool or wish to grab a breather. Gracing our event will be the house DJ roster which includes

DJ Koo, one of the most popular DJs in Korea. Welcome to the party!

Food and Drink

SolBridge Australs has is planning to provide three meals for each day with

debating rounds and special banquet style dinners for Opening Ceremony,

Womens Night, and Championship Dinner. On top of these events, we

will provide drinks at the Test Debate Social and we plan to organize a Tournament After-Party to conclude our

competition after the final. We will also be providing both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments during debate days,

allowing our participants a taste of authentic Korean drinking culture in Soju and Makegeolli (and tea, of course).

Daejeon and Transportation

Daejeon is a technological innovation hub and it is two

hours bus ride (one hour via bullet train) from Seoul, the capital

of Korea Republic. Our hotel partners are strategically located in

downtown Daejeon and participants will find nightlife

establishments accessible. Daejeon as a tourist city is historically

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famous for its natural hot springs. Our hotels have these hot spring facilities in-house and will be available for use by

participants as part of their stay.

We expect most of our participants from abroad to arrive at

the Incheon International Airport. On arrivals day, we will be

providing buses to bring Australs debaters and judges from the

airport to the hotels in Yousung, Daejeon. These buses will be timed

strategically to the arrival schedule of institutions coming in and shall

require no additional cost. This is possible through the efforts of the

team to negotiate rates within Daejeon itself.

Finally, we will also be providing transportation from the

hotels to either Woosong University or SolBridge International on all

debate days. This is to ensure uniform arrival times for participants.

We intend to run a punctual Australs this 2015.

The organizing team has prepared a flight canvas for

institutions interested in air ticket costs for 2015.

This is available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z-KtXJCqbK1PvSfB1ZzsPa-

1qZrKKUlYfVURU4pMykk/pubhtml

Tabulation Master

George Cong Chen is a science graduate of

the University of Hong Kong. He has tabbed

dozens of competitions in China, Hong Kong, and

Macau. He most notably led the tab team of the

Asian BP 2013. He has also been the permanent tab

director at main-stay events like the China British

Parliamentary Championship, Hong Kong Debate

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Open and East Asian Inter-varsity. He was deputy chief adjudicator at the Hangzhou Spring Tournament 2014 and BFSU

Debate Challenge 2014. George is experienced in using all currently in-use tabbing software in either the WUDC or 3-on-3

format. He is known best for being able to debug and recode systems if necessary, averting a crisis at the Asian BP and re-

encoding tabs from the beginning after a crash in less than 30 minutes.

Formerly a competitive farmer, George now works for an

education consultancy firm and also helps out at the China Debate

Project in Beijing. Our advisory team members Mr. Loke and Mr.

Geonsub Shin also possess much experience with time

management and tabulation. The objective is to capitalize on

software developments and build on past successes with George

and the team. SolBridge fully intends to develop the tab software

used at both Korea Australs 2011 and as well as the new software

from the tab team at Dunedin Australs 2014.

Northeast Asia and Debating

Northeast Asia refers to the debating circuit that

includes China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, and

South Korea. To date, NEA has only hosted Australs once in

its 39 year history. An area of both debating development

and language development, NEA debating has great potential.

However, the challenges that institutions face come from universities that offer limited funding to their clubs. Given the

extracurricular nature of debating, many students have to fund themselves to attend events like Australs. Korea Australs 2011

was the first time in history that the region was able to host a major regional tournament that brings in teams from outside

Asia. An astonishing 21 universities and 38 teams from NEA were able to compete in 2011.

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ESL and EFL Policy

Where we could still get data, we have noticed a lack of participation from institutions with ESL and EFL

backgrounds. Positively, we also recognize that almost half of the teams participating at Korea Australs 2011 were

in a special English category.

On our language team are

Lee Youngcho from Ewha

International, Yeeun Kim

from Chung-Ang University,

Yoonji Kim from the

Underwood Union, and

senior Seth Jeesoo Kang

from Korea University.

Here is a chart

reflecting data we gathered

from published team tabs of several Australs tournaments. We believe bringing Australs to Korea will help us give

access to ESL and EFL teams from the Northeast. We may release further data soon.

We look forward to exploring the best way of accommodating everyone in the competition at SolBridge

Australs 2015.

Korea Excursion and Free Day Itineraries

Given that many participants at Australs 2015 will be first time

visitors to Korea and Northeast Asia, we have thus far prepared three

options for your free day adventure. These are a tour of the Korean

Peninsula's Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), a day trip via return flight to Jeju

Island, and a visit to the nearby Boryeong Mud Festival, internationally

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famous for relaxation activities like mud massage as well as more active options like mud wrestling, mud sliding,

marine mud-training, and more.

Socials, Sponsorship, and Tournament Finances

Institutional Support

This July, SolBridge won a 700,000,000 KRW per year government grant to help make the institution more

international. One of the primary areas in which this funding is to be utilized is for supporting various student

events and activities. Prior to this grant, SolBridge Debate Society has received between 34,000,000 ~ 69,000,000

KRW in funding per year since 2011, with amounts varying based on the availability of government grants.

SolBridge has, with and without government grants, also supported debating tournaments such as the 2012 KIDA

National Championship and 2013 North East Asian Open with in-kind support and money grants. With the new

government grant in place, and with personnel on the organising committee who were instrumental in winning the

grant and has a significant say in disbursing the grant, we are confident that substantial institutional support for

Australs will be granted.

Partial list of events and planned expenditures on the SolBridge budget for this academic year:

1. Asian Thought Leader Case Competition (in-school): 25,000,000 KRW

2. International Case Competition: 18,000,000 KRW

3. Entrepreneurship Idea Competition: 21,000,000 KRW

4. Multicultural Activities/Culture Day (in-school): 10,000,000 KRW

Corporate Support

SolBridge, as a business school, prides itself on its connections to corporations. We have at least four areas

of connection/major programs involving domestic and international corporations that we will utilise to secure

corporate support for the 2015 Australs.

The first is the makeup of the current leadership of SolBridge International. The Vice President of

SolBridge, who was instrumental in securing classrooms and auditoriums for the Australs bid as well as mustering

institutional support when we hosted North East Asian Open in 2013, is the former Vice President of LG

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Electronics, Inc. In addition, the current Honorary President of Woosong University (other mother institute) is the

former president of LG Electronics and continues to be a senior advisor for the multinational corporation. Another

Vice President of Woosong University is a former Samsung executive. One of our professors is a former high

ranking official of SK Telecom, one of the largest telecommunications companies in Korea. We will be receiving the

help of their direct and indirect connections to businesses to try to secure sponsorships for Australs.

Secondly, SolBridge operates a Corporate Advisory Council (CAC), where CEOs and prominent

business minds meet at least twice a year with the Dean and university management to offer advice on curriculum

and activities of SolBridge. Some current members of CAC are:

Mr. Christopher Wood: Representative Director & General Manager of Estee Lauder, Korea

Mr. William Freeman III: Managing Director, AIG Global Real Estate, Korea

Dr. Yoonsoo Kim: Managing Director and Country Manager, Bank of New York Mellon, Korea

Dr. Lilly DAngelo: Vice President of Danone International, New York

Dr. Hae-Jung Jung: President of M.K. International Inc., Korea

Mr. Brad Buckwalter: President/Regional General Manager, Tyco Security Solutions ADT, Korea

Mr. Alan Timblick: Head of Seoul Global Center Seoul Metropolitan Government

Dr. Stephen Frawley: Senior V.P./SPHR, HR Group SK Telecom

Mr. Hermann Kaess: President/CEO of Robert Bosch Korea Ltd.

Ms. Jean Moe: President of Pulmuone Danone

Ms. Lisa Wallace: Executive Director of Delta

Mr. Kook-Hyun Moon: Former President of Hansol Textile Ltd.; President of New Paradigm Inst.

Mr. Paul Kim: CEO of Benchmark Partners

Thirdly, SolBridge extends beyond merely receiving institutional advice through the CAC by operating a

Global CEO Mentoring program, where current and former heads of businesses mentor our students through a

for-credit course. In 2013, 6 CEO Mentors guided 60 of our students. CEO Mentors include officials from LG,

Samsung, and Standard Charters. CEO Mentors are personally invested in their mentees, and have successfully

helped several graduates to secure job offers in some of the top companies around the country.

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Fourthly, SolBridge offers a regular series of special lectures, called the Plantinum Lecture Series, where

former and current business, political, and academic leaders visit SolBridge to deliver lectures to students and attain

Friends of SolBridge status, some later to join the CAC or CEO Mentoring Program.

Recent Guest Speakers featured at SolBridge Platinum Lecture Series include:

1. William Freeman, Managing Director of AIG Global, President of AIG Korean Real Estate

Development

2. Donald Manzullo, President/CEO of Korea Economic Institute of America, Former Illinois

Congressman

3. Pat Gaines, President of Boeing Korea and Vice President of Boeing International, President of

the American Chamber of Commerce in Korea

4. Min-soon Song, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

5. Sohn Jie Ae, CEO of Arirang TV, Former CNN Seoul Bureau Chief

6. Hermann Kaess, President/CEO of Robert Bosch Korea Ltd.

7. Jongshik Kim, CEO of Tata-Daewoo

8. Hang-hee Lee, President/CEO of Corning Korea

9. Nam-kyun Woo, Former President, Current Advisor of LG Electronics Inc.

10. Gi-hong Song, Managing Partern of Deloitte Consulting

11. John Walker, Executive Director at Macquarie Group Ltd., Chairman of Macquarie Group of

Companies, Korea

12. Shin-Bae Kim, Vice Chairman/CEO of SK C&C

We are confident that such close relationships with corporate partners will yield a far better result in

securing a sponsorship than merely going up to unknown corporations to ask for support.

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Socials

The team has been able to secure sponsorship of event venues at the hotel partners as a guarantee. This

avoids fixed costs when possible. However, the team reserves the space to move socials to other venues when

opportunities arise, much like our break night party. This also means all of our budget goes straight to alcohol, food,

and lighting/music.

Adjudication Team and Adjudicators Policy

The Adjudication Team for SolBridge Australs has been formed

with both competence and experience factored in and with regional and

gender diversity accounted for in the selection process. We understand

that Austral-Asia as a debating region is a diverse community. Your

SolBridge adjudication team understands this and is dedicated to finding

opportunities to touch base with all of our friends from the regions of

Northeast Asia, South Asia, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand. Our seven judges have decided to put up a tentative list of

competitions where you may find a member of

our team this year. In these events where we

may be debating or judging, we look forward to

having a chat with you about Australs and to

know your concerns better. Australs would not

be complete without a wide pool of competent

adjudicators to complement the judge team. As such, we have budgetted a large portion of our expected financial support and

registration fees income to independent adjudicators subsidy. There will be a minimum of 30,800,000.00 for funding the

flights of qualified independent judges from around the Austral-Asian region. Within moderate expectations of sponsorship,

we expect this number to adjust upwards to 50,800,000.00 within the calendar year. Given the proximity of Korea Republic

to both Europe and ASEAN, we expect this fund to be distributed efficiently to enable many strong judges to attend Australs.

This possibility extends to North American judges as well, given the dramatically increased frequency of moderately-priced

return flights to Northeast Asia from Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York-JFK, and other ports in the United States.

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Since Australs is regionally the second-largest debating tournament in the world, the added cost-effectiveness of Korea as a

regional host may for the first time promise the participation of strong judges from the Americas.

Finally, we are aware that institutions have been interested in

sending contingents with adjudicators that exceed the participation rule of

the Australs of that year. SolBridge Australs 2015 is imposing a minimum

requirement of n-1 on all institutions that wish to participate. This means

that the number of teams

your university wishes to

send must equal the same number of judges sent minus 1. The affirmative action

rule that requires a third of the contigent must be famale is likewise applied on

the total number with adjudicators. While this exists as a minimum rule, we have

crunched the numbers so that teams can send virtually as many judges as they wish and independent judges are liberally

welcome. This is because of a new variable revenue driven cost system that is only limited by the number of rooms needed

with our accommodation partners. More on this will be discussed later in the calendar year.

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Tentative Tournament Schedule DAY 1

Arrival and Hotel Check-in for All Teams and Welcome Drinks DAY 2

Debating and Adjudication Briefing Organizing Committee Briefing Adjudication Test Interviews Opening Ceremony and Dinner

DAY 3 Debate Proper for Round 1 Debate Proper for Round 2 Debate Proper for Round 3 Womens Night DAY 4 Debate Proper for Round 4 Debate Proper for Round 5 Debate Proper for Round 6 DAY 5

Debate Proper for Round 7 Debate Proper for Round 8 Break Night Pool Party DAY 6 FREE DAY and Council DAY 7 Debate Proper for Open Pre-Octofinals and ESL Quarterfinals Debate Proper for Open Octofinals and EFL Semifinals Debate Proper for Open Quarterfinals and ESL Semifinals DAY 8 Debate Proper for Open Semifinals Debate Proper for EFL Grand Final Debate Proper for ESL Grand Final Debate Proper for Open Grand Final Championship Dinner Banquet After Party DAY 9 Departures

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Appendix

Since announcing our intention to bid, we have been asked to address a number of questions and concerns, some in

comparison to our rival bid. Our responses and comments on these issues are listed below.

1. Representation: SolBridge Australs 2015 welcomes the appointment of a female chief adjudicator on the

team, the first since the 2011 edition of Australs, also in Korea Republic.

2. Location of socials: Our socials are pegged to be hosted at the hotel in the interest of convenience and to

take advantage of sponsorship. Upon the opportunity to move our social to an area of reasonable cost and

significant improvement, we would not hesitate to do so. However, we would like to reflect a reasonably

conservative estimate. If we wanted to, we can allocate our surplus of over 17000 USD to more

adjudicators and socials. We will do so upon making sure that there will be no further tournament issues on

volume of participants or price shifts.

3. Break-night: Our pool party is ground breaking because it is likely one of the very few times the debate

community can experience an event like this. However, eating and drinking and much of the socializing can

happen out of the water. It is to be a lot of fun regardless of if people choose to get wet or not. We also

would like to note that we will have professional life guards.

4. Traffic: Traffic has been test driven once already to fall within 21 minutes in moderate conditions with rain.

This will likely be the case, if not faster, in most conditions. Rounds will begin on time and people will get

to socials immediately if we keep them in our accommodations partners events halls or in nearby areas in

town in Daejeon.

5. Language and Region: Our adjudicators on this team have the most number of training and adjudicating

touch points across all regions in Asia Debating. We have gone to lengths on our official Facebook page on

why our team is substantially impactful at empowering debaters in any language category. Our adjudication

team represents Australasia as a region best, given that we have representatives who not only stand for their

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regions but also go to lengths to meet and interact with debaters and universities from other regions. We

are the only bid this Australs to have a Northeast Asian representative. We are the only bid as well to have

adjudication team members in regular interaction with South Asia (India multiple times and Bangladesh at

least once next year), helping to develop a region that has been historically underrepresented in Australs.

We also would like to emphasise the guidance of our diverse advisory team including a World Champion,

the Korean Union president, and an Australs ESL Champion.

6. Adjudication Funding: Including the funding meant for adjudication core team members, our total

amount of funding in either worst or moderate case is USD 47,400.00. A more comprehensive breakdown

is available on our budget on our Facebook page. This means there is no compromising on the quality of

judges. In fact, our budget surplus which can be spent on improving socials can also be appropriated to

judge funding. That is over 17000 USD set aside as cushion but ready for allocation.

7. Sponsorship: Our institutional support is co-supported by active involvement of SolBridge professors.

Unlike other bids for other tournaments run by university students logistically, both our adjudication team

and organizing team are led by professors of the university deeply involved in debating. Professor Park and

Professor Iesue ensure a deeper synergy between Australs and the school itself. This adds additional

certainty for the university to be expected to go over and beyond minimum expectations.

8. Tabulation: Australs is a large and prestigious competition that needs a tab master of tested performance.

Schedule delays and other problems pose threats to logistical seamlessness. We feel obliged to remark that

the Macau UADC 2011, run by a team that included our rival bids tab master, suffered from fatal problems

in tabulation that led to adjudication team members re-tabbing personally and the break to be released the

next day. We are resolved to avoid any mishaps such as this, regardless of where the fault may lie. We are

proud to have Mr. Cong Chen, who with the help of Mr. Zheng Bo, was able to save an entire Asian BP

championship from having a collapsed tab due to software errors.

9. Cost: We acknowledge that our bid costs more, but we feel that we have justified where this additional

funding is paying for the security of a tested bid, the diversity and competence of a strong adjudication team,

and the certainty of a great tournament experience. You will also note from our posts that despite the fact

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that Korea is considered a developed country (in terms of economy, safety, infrastructure, sanitation,

political and legal system), the cost of many items that debaters may need to purchase is very low, showing

little or no difference from that in Jakarta.

10. Organising Committee: We feel it is important for an organising committee to both be experienced and

be primarily from the host institution, so that they can better communicate with and be accountable to

make sure everything is taken care of on-site. In that regard, we feel that our bid is the one that features an

in-house Org Comm that has successfully held two major tournaments (Korean Nationals and NEAO).

Along with advice from both the domestic and international (representing far more regional diversity)

advisory committee, this promises that Australs 2015 is in experienced and directly responsible hands, and

will run without a hitch.