Kyobo Handwriting Contest... Seeking Unique Handwriting Styles

The 9th Kyobo Handwriting Contest will be held. As part of the ‘2023 Handwriting Culture Expansion Campaign,’ participants can select a Korean sentence from a book that left a deep impression on them and submit it written in their unique handwriting. Entries are allowed without restrictions on writing instruments, excluding decorative writing such as brush calligraphy and calligraphy.

Entry forms can be obtained at the Baro Dream Zone in Kyobo Bookstore branches nationwide or printed from the Kyobo Bookstore Campaign website. Submissions can be made at bookstores, via the website, or by mail. The deadline for entries is July 3.

Three hundred preliminary round qualifiers will receive a Kyobo Bookstore gift certificate worth 10,000 KRW. The top prize winners (10 people) and runner-up winners (20 people), who pass three rounds of judging including expert evaluation and customer voting, will receive gift certificates worth 500,000 KRW and 200,000 KRW respectively. The grand prize winner of the judges’ award will receive a 100,000 KRW gift certificate, and group award winners will be awarded 200,000 KRW in cash along with a handwritten nameplate.

The winning works will be exhibited for one month starting October 6 at the Kyobo Bookstore Gwanghwamun branch. One winner of the top prize will have their handwriting turned into a font and distributed for free.

The SNS handwriting contest ‘#IlsangsokSonGeulssi’ will also be held. Participants who write on the given theme in handwriting and share it on SNS will be selected as 60 winners to receive a Kyobo Bookstore gift certificate worth 30,000 KRW.

Shin Dalja, chairperson of the Handwriting Culture Expansion Committee organizing the event, said, "Handwriting is a picture of the heart. It is a self-portrait and my own face drawn by the brush of the heart with the flow of sincere blood," and added, “Please take time to face yourself through handwriting.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.