Dongmyeong University Department of Advertising and Public Relations, 50 Million Won in Prize Money and Scholarships Awarded

Department's Record-Breaking Achievements, 54 Awards Including Competitions

The Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Dongmyung University swept various competitions last year, securing prize money and scholarships totaling 50 million KRW.

Dongmyung University (President Jeon Ho-hwan) announced on the 5th that the Department of Advertising and Public Relations recorded 54 awards throughout 2023, including scholarship achievements.

Over the past year, the total amount of prize money and scholarships reached approximately 50 million KRW. This surpassed the 2022 record of 36 awards and 37 million KRW in scholarships.

In 2023, the Department produced 3 GS SHOP Content Leader Scholars, 4 Korea Scholarship Foundation Humanities 100-Year Scholars, 2 Gohwa Scholars, and 2 TU Scholars.

The scholarships awarded to 11 students alone amounted to 35 million KRW. This figure excludes academic excellence scholarships, welfare scholarships, volunteer scholarships, low-income outstanding student scholarships, work-study scholarships, mileage scholarships, and national scholarships, representing pure internal and external scholarship funds.

Notably, the GS SHOP Content Leader Scholarship program has produced 13 scholars over 9 consecutive years from 2019 to 2023, with a total scholarship amount of 19.5 million KRW.

Students of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations at Dongmyung University.

Students from the Department of Advertising and Public Relations won the Grand Prize (President’s Award) in the Shorts category of the Busan World Expo Bid International Competition, three awards including the Grand Prize and Encouragement Award at the KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) Nine Season 2023 Value-Up Camp and Performance Sharing Meeting (KBO President’s Award), the Grand Prize (Busan Mayor’s Award) at the Rain Sound Project, three awards including the Grand Prize at the Public Service Advertising Contest (Busan Viewer Media Center Director’s Award), three awards including the Excellence Award in the PR Planning Project category at the Daegu Viewer Media Center (Daegu Viewer Media Center Director’s Award), and three awards including the Grand Prize at the Busan Idea & Invention Competition (Korea Invention Promotion Association President’s Award), Excellence Award (Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry President’s Award), and Excellence Award (President’s Award).

They also received the Excellence Award in the Startup Marketing category at the Startup Nomad Competition (Busan Creative Economy Innovation Center Director’s Award), Bronze Prize at the Korea Yakult University Student Marketing Contest, Encouragement Award at the Korea Advertising and Public Relations Society Smoking Cessation Campaign Planning Contest (Society President’s Award), Encouragement Award at the KT&G Imagination Marketing School, two awards including the Microsoft Korea CEO Award (Challenge Award, Innovation Award) at the GPT-AI Utilization Startup Competition, two Challenger Awards at the Korea University Student Advertising Competition, five awards including the Grand Prize at the College and Department Promotional Video Contest (President’s Award), Excellence and Outstanding Awards in on-campus Service Learning (President’s Award), and the Excellence Award at the Link Project Patent Camp, totaling 43 awards.

Additional achievements include publications in Korea Research Foundation-registered academic journals and more than three student patent applications.

Professor Lee Jeong-gi, head of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations, stated, “The students’ achievements, which surpass those of other universities, are the result of differentiated practical curricula and diverse club activities (Beyond for advertising planning, Tak for video planning and shooting, and the reading group Seosamdok), double mentoring, field training, and employment counseling sessions by seniors (special lecture series), a variety of extracurricular programs. We will continue the achievements of 2023 into 2024.”

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