‘2024 Korea Comics Criticism Contest’ held, grand prize of 6 million won

[굿모닝충청 서라백 기자] The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo In-chon) and the Korea Manhwa Contents Agency (Director Shin Jong-cheol) are holding the ‘2024 Korea Comics Criticism Contest’ to discover and foster culturally diverse approaches and create an in-depth comics culture foundation in line with the growth of the comics industry. ‘ was announced on the 24th.

The contest is open to anyone, regardless of qualifications, including established and new, with a critique written on a free topic of approximately 14,000 characters by selecting one of the four fields of author theory, work theory, policy theory, and industrial theory. The final 6 works will be selected after review by relevant experts such as comics researchers and critics, and the award scale will be ▲1 grand prize winner (prize money of 6 million won), ▲1 grand prize winner (4 million won), and ▲2 excellence prize winners (200 won each). 10,000 Won), ▲ 2 Rookie Awards (1 million Won each).

The winning works will be published in the comics criticism magazine and , and will be given the opportunity to participate as a writer for comics criticism and columns published by the Promotion Agency in the future.

Applications are accepted from September 2nd to September 6th through the Promotion Agency’s Integrated Project Management System (http://pms.komacon.kr), and for further details, please visit the Promotion Agency website (www.komacon.kr) or contact the Archives Business Team (032-310-3053).

For more information, please contact the Promotion Agency’s website or the Archives Business Team (032-310-3053).

Lee Mi-jeong, head of the Archives Business Team at the Promotion Agency, said, “In addition to the Korea Comics Criticism Contest, we will continue to conduct projects to establish comics as a cultural content representing Korea through various discourses and criticisms on comics, such as the publication of and a special serial column contest. “We plan to operate it as such,” he said.

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