Gyeongju City Designated as Official City of 'World Urban Sketchers'... Sixth in Korea Along with Incheon

Expecting a Boom in Diary-Style 'Drawing' Including Urban Sketch Festa

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] The historic cultural tourism city of Gyeongju was recently selected as an official city of 'World Urban Sketchers.'

The Gyeongju Urban Sketchers Association (President Jeong Dong-sik) announced on the 25th that Gyeongju was approved as an official Urban Sketchers city by the 'World Urban Sketchers' board on the 18th.

There were five Urban Sketchers cities in Korea: Seoul, Jeju, Suwon, Ulsan, and Busan. This time, Gyeongju and Incheon were newly selected. Globally, it is the 175th city to be approved.

The Gyeongju Urban Sketchers Association has been actively conducting activities such as hosting Urban Sketchers Festa and providing Urban Sketchers education since 2017.

In particular, through hosting the Urban Sketchers Festa twice, sketches of Gyeongju city center by artists and the general public have been promoted worldwide via SNS (blogs, Facebook, Instagram, etc.).

Mayor Joo Nak-young of Gyeongju said, "I sincerely congratulate Gyeongju on being selected as an official Urban Sketchers city and thank the Gyeongju Urban Sketchers Association for their efforts in achieving this designation." He added, "I hope that artists will take pride and widely share the beautiful cityscape of the thousand-year-old capital, Gyeongju."

Meanwhile, 'Urban Sketchers' is a field where artists draw the villages they live in or visit while traveling on-site in a diary-like manner, and it is organized as a global organization.

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