'2022 Toyota Dream Car Art Contest' Korea Preliminary Award Ceremony Held

[Asia Economy Reporter Kiho Sung] Toyota Korea announced on the 25th that it held an online Korean preliminary awards ceremony with the winners of the ‘2022 Toyota Dream Car Art Contest’.

The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, which held its awards ceremony the day before, is a global project conducted annually since 2004 for children worldwide, where children freely express their ideas of a ‘dream car’ through drawings. In the global finals, Korean children have won awards in 2013 and 2018, and last year, Jeyul Lee from Sambong Elementary School in Anyang had the honor of becoming the first Korean child to win the grand prize.

Before the global finals, the domestic preliminary contest received a record-high 3,061 entries. After judging based on message delivery, creativity, and artistry, 59 works were finally selected. This year, not only hand-drawn pictures but also digital works including computer graphics (CG) were accepted, resulting in more delicate and diverse submissions.

The Korean preliminaries selected a total of nine winners: one gold, one silver, and one bronze in each category of under 8 years old, 8 to 11 years old, and 12 to 15 years old. Winners receive prize money and the benefit of donating books worth 500,000 KRW to their affiliated schools or institutions in the children’s names, as well as qualification to advance to the global finals, the World Contest.

Nobuyuki Takemura, President of Toyota Motor Korea, said, “I am moved and inspired by the future car worlds imagined by many Korean children,” and added, “I hope the Dream Car Art Contest provides an opportunity for children, the future leaders, to freely pursue their dreams.”

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