Yeosu Artist Jang Hyeong-ik Wins Cultural Heritage Administration Award at 'Crafts Exhibition'

‘Sogeum Jangdo,’ a Combination of the Traditional Instrument Sogeum and Jangdo

Yeosu City (Mayor Jeong Gi-myeong) announced that Jang Hyeong-ik, president of the Yeosu City Craft Association, who participated as the representative of Jeollanam-do in the 53rd Korea Craft Competition hosted by the Cultural Heritage Administration, won the Cultural Heritage Administration Commissioner Award.

The "Korea Craft Competition" is an annual event held to discover and award excellent crafts and to promote the development of creative crafts. Only crafts selected in the preliminary rounds of each city and province are eligible to participate.

[Photo by Yeosu City]

This year, Yeosu City submitted a total of three works to the finals, and Jang Hyeong-ik's work "Sogeumjangdo" was honored with the Cultural Heritage Administration Commissioner Award.

Additionally, Seo Seong-ho's work "Drawing Korea" received an honorable mention, and Jeollanam-do was awarded the Encouragement Prize in the group category, which sums the scores of individual honorable mentions and above.

"Sogeumjangdo" is a work that combines the "Sogeum," a traditional Korean musical instrument, with "Jangdo" (a traditional small knife). It was highly evaluated for developing a new form of Jangdo using bamboo and softwood, created with the spirit of a straight and upright scholar in mind.

The honorable mention work "Drawing Korea" is made by embossing vegetable-tanned full-grain leather and is expressed in the shape of a knife that gives a three-dimensional effect, meticulously hand-stitched.

A city official said, "We congratulate the awardees who have enhanced the value of local traditional craft art," and added, "We will continue to discover and nurture excellent crafts to contribute to the revitalization of the local craft industry."

Meanwhile, the selected excellent crafts will be exhibited from November 16 to 19 at Gallery 6 of the Cheongju Cultural Factory.

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