Samsung Life Insurance Holds Art Competition Finals 'Ontact' Style

Among Over 10,000 Preliminary Participants,
100 Elementary, Middle, and High School Students Join

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki Ha-young] Samsung Life Insurance announced on the 15th that the finals of the "40th Samsung Life Insurance Art Competition" were held online.

The Samsung Life Insurance Art Competition began in 1981 as the National On-site Drawing Competition, then evolved through the Blue Star Drawing Festival in 1998, the Bichumi Drawing Festival in 2000, and the Samsung Life Youth Art Contest in 2009, reaching its current form. With a cumulative total of 5.47 million participants up to last year, it has established itself as the most prestigious art competition in Korea over the past 40 years.

This year's art competition, under the concept of "A Drawing Hotspot for Dreaming, MisulLaeng," received great response with about 10,000 students applying in the preliminary round. Among them, in the painting category, a total of 100 students?25 from each division (lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school, and high school)?competed in the finals held on the 14th.

Due to the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the competition adopted an ontact (online contact) method starting from the preliminaries, and the finals were also conducted online from each participant's home. Drawing kits for the finals, including watercolor paints, drawing paper, tube cases, and smartphone tripods, were sent in advance to the finalists. The event staff observed the students drawing by displaying their screens online.

The 40th Samsung Life Insurance Art Competition will hold the award ceremony online on the 29th after judging the physical artworks submitted by the students.

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