Meeple hopes to lessen the suffering of South Korean students

Tangible Idea, a mobile development team from Korea, has launched Meeple, a mobile app that aims to provide mentoring services to those who are in dire need of academic and personal help.

Unveiled in January this year, it connects middle and high school students to university students in Korea.

Meeple involves two kinds of users. The first group are the mentees – middle and high school students who are unable to seek proper assistance from their peers and teachers. The app enables them to communicate with college and university students.

The other group are the mentors – these are tertiary students from college and university who have gone through secondary school and are able to attend to the mentee’s problems.

Meeple’s features

Authorization Process

Implemented to give mentors credibility, this feature authenticates their identities on Meeple to ensure they are legitimate and from the institutions that they initially selected when registering. For instance, choosing Seoul National University from the institution list requires the user to go through screening to indicate that the user is from that university.

Mentoring service (Conversation box)

This particular feature is the crux of the application. When a mentee and a mentor are matched, the conversation box appears and they could start communicating.

Report system to ban inappropriate users

The report system is also an important feature of the application. This particular addition is to reduce or even eradicate users who indicate inappropriate behaviours.

Materializing ideas

Co-founded by Shawn Byun and Ingyun Baek, who are graduates from Seoul National University, Tangible Ideas got its name from the founders’ vision of turning opportunities and ideas into tangible gains.