The cradle of comics research, the ‘2024 Korea Comics Criticism Contest’ held < Culture < Culture < Article text

(Seoul = International News) Reporter Kim Seo-jung = The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Yoo In-chon) and the Korea Cartoon Video Agency (President Shin Jong-cheol, hereinafter referred to as the Agency) are discovering and nurturing culturally diverse approaches in line with the growth of the comics industry and promoting in-depth comics. The ‘2024 Korea Comics Criticism Contest’ will be held to create a cultural foundation.

This 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).

In addition, 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.

Contest applications will be accepted through the Promotion Agency’s integrated business management system from Monday, September 2 to Friday, September 6. For further details, please contact the Promotion Agency’s website or Archive Business Team.

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 follows.”