KCSC Selects 5 Best Programs of the Month for August

Grand Prize Awarded to TBN Project 'Paldo Jandi's Dream'

[Asia Economy Reporter Cha Min-young] The Korea Communications Standards Commission announced on the 29th that it will award five programs as the 'Best Programs of August 2021.'

The judging committee selected a total of five works, including one grand prize winner and winners in each category, from 49 submitted entries.

The grand prize winner, TBN Gyeongnam Traffic Broadcasting's TBN special documentary radio program Radio Pia 'Paldo Jandi-ui Kkum (Dream of Paldo Grass),' is a radio documentary that records the stories of students from Hanil Women's Industrial High School, the first industrial school in Korea in the 1970s, and female workers at Hanil Fibers.

In the terrestrial TV category, KBS-1TV's documentary 'Docu Insight' National Team, which skillfully addresses sports and gender discrimination issues through interviews with six female national athletes and archival materials, and SBS-TV's News Story 'Do You Know Young Carers?' which deeply investigates the cases of young carers supporting their parents and grandparents, were selected.

In the new media category, the two-part documentary 'I Am a Missing Person' from KBS Daejeon YouTube channel and others, which covers stories of long-term missing persons and their families, was selected. In the local broadcasting category, Daejeon MBC's August 15 special documentary 'Sing! Resist! The Great Discovery of 6,000 Anti-Japanese Songs,' which uncovered and restored 6,000 anti-Japanese songs from the Japanese colonial period, was selected.

The award-winning works will be announced on the commission's website, and considering the social distancing measures due to COVID-19, the ceremony will be omitted.

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