Competed with 36 works such as dramas and advertisements
Talked about the start of the Saemaul Undong and forest development in a video under the theme, ‘Saemaul for the Better World’
Two international student teams awarded such as the Grand Prize and Participation Prize showing high understanding of ‘Saemaul’
[December 26, 2019]
International students studying at the YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul (Director Kim Gi-soo) won the grand prize (above video) at the ‘Saemaul UCC Contest’.
The ‘Saemaul UCC Contest’, supervised by Cheongdo-gun and hosted by the Cheongdo Foundation for Korean Spiritual Culture, is a UCC production contest to share the spirit of Saemaul and it is in its fourth year this year.
This year’s theme was ‘Saemaul Spirit that Values Today and Makes Tomorrow More Abundant’. Applications were received from college students around the nation from September to December 1, and a total of 36 pieces were submitted across various genres including drama, advertisement and animation.
<International students of the YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul that won the grand prize at the 4th Saemaul UCC Contest>
First and second reviews were conducted based on the content and uniqueness of the work, story and editing perfection, YouTube views, etc. to select a total of 26 winning pieces. The ‘Kmang Kmang’ Team (photo above) comprised of YU Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul international students Cheng Mardy (25, Cambodia), Muhammad Nur Syamsi (30, Indonesia), Ngo Tien Binh (29, Vietnam), and Basukala Sandeep (28, Nepal), received the grand prize.
Under the theme ‘Saemaul for the Better World’, the ‘Kmang Kmang’ team explained about Cheongdo where the Saemaul Undong first started and the start of the Saemaul Undong in the 1970s for forest development and the development of Korea in a two-minute video, receiving high scores.
Cheng Mardy said, “Taking the video contents production course offered by the YU PR team was very helpful. We were able to integrate the video production and editing skills with the knowledge learned in our majors at the graduate school to share our message in a short video.”
Meanwhile, the Koffie Samuel (40) and Arthur Rexford (32) team (photo on right) who are international students from Ghana studying at the Park Chung Hee School of Policy and Saemaul who took part in this contest also received the Participation Prize. The two teams that were awarded were all composed of international students, but it was found that they had higher understanding on Saemaul than other participating Korean students as they are students majoring in Saemaul.
