'Hope Messages for Overcoming COVID-19' Encountered on Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu

‘Urihuimang Children’s Drawing Contest’ Winning Works Displayed as Street Banners... Delivering Hope and Beauty to Residents through Culture and Art

Winning Entries of the 'Our Hope Children's Drawing Contest' Exhibited on Olympic-ro

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Songpa-gu (Mayor Park Seong-su) is producing the winning entries of the ‘Our Hope Children's Drawing Contest’ as horizontal banners and displaying them on major roads within the district until the 29th.

The district expects that, during the period of over seven months of the COVID-19 pandemic, these childlike drawings will bring changes to the urban environment and contribute to ‘psychological quarantine’ efforts.

The ‘Our Hope Children's Drawing Contest’ was planned as an exhibition program of the Hansung Baekje Cultural Festival, a representative historical and cultural festival of Seoul.

Under the themes of ‘Overcoming COVID-19 and Hope’ and ‘Hansung Baekje Cultural Festival,’ submissions were accepted from elementary school students in grades 1 to 3 starting in July, and seven works were selected.

The winning works were produced as 3,743 horizontal banners and displayed along 33.3 km of major roads running through Songpa-gu, including Olympic-ro, Wiryesong-daero, and Baekje Gobeun-ro.

The winning works, reflecting children's perspectives on the COVID-19 era, convey messages encouraging each other to recover a healthy daily life.

Additionally, the winning works will be exhibited on the 104㎡ screen on the outer wall of the district office building to maximize the effect.

Songpa-gu Mayor Park Seong-su emphasized, “Fear, anxiety, and fatigue have accumulated during the COVID-19 crisis, and many people are concerned about the collapse of psychological quarantine. While implementing scientifically based quarantine measures, we will do our best to offer hope and beauty to residents through culture and arts and overcome the current difficulties together.”

Songpa-gu will hold the ‘2020 Ontact Hansung Baekje Cultural Festival’ from September 23 to 27. Through social networking services (SNS) and YouTube channels, it plans to conduct historical and cultural street parades, experiential play, and photo contests to recreate the value of the Hansung Baekje era’s historical culture and share comfort and encouragement.

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