Ridi, K-Story Contest... Grand Prize 20 Million Won

by Seo Miteum

Published 19 Jun.2023 08:35(KST)

Content platform company RIDI announced on the 19th that it will hold the 3rd 'K-Story Contest' in collaboration with Sam & Parkers, Showbox, and Arc Media.

Now in its third year, the 'K-Story Contest' was established to discover works with outstanding ideas and emerging writers. Every year, works that combine originality with both artistic quality and commercial potential are selected to receive support for single-volume publication, video adaptation, and webtoon adaptation.

Ridi, K-Story Contest... Grand Prize 20 Million Won

Last year's grand prize winner, 'Rabbit,' was recently published as an e-book, and the first contest winner, 'Suicide Signal Detected,' has secured video adaptation following its e-book release.

Both new and established writers are eligible to participate. The submission genres are ▲K-Drama (Drama·Romance) ▲K-Mystery (Mystery·Thriller·Suspense) ▲K-Fantasy (SF·Fantasy), totaling three categories. Participants should submit a mid-length novel of approximately 600 manuscript pages along with a synopsis to the contest email by July 31. However, manuscripts in web novel format are excluded.

A total of four works will be selected through two rounds of judging. The first round will be conducted by the contest organizers RIDI, Sam & Parkers, and sponsors Showbox and Arc Media. The second round will be evaluated by experts including writers Sim Neoul, Jo Ye-eun, and Jeong Hae-yeon, as well as 150 readers. The prize money is 20 million KRW for one grand prize winner and 5 million KRW each for three excellence award winners (one per genre).

A RIDI representative said, “Through the ‘K-Story Contest,’ RIDI is discovering high-quality story IPs that form the foundation of killer content and contributing to the growth of the domestic content industry. We hope that writers with outstanding skills and attractive ideas will take on the challenge.”