Please Pick One Name Out of Three... Launch of Busan Children's Newspaper, Voting for Newspaper and Reporter Team Names

Over 800 Entries Submitted, 3 Finalists Each for Newspaper and Reporters Group
Online and On-site Surveys at Busan City Website and City Hall First Floor

What should the name of the Busan Children's Newspaper be?

Busan City (Mayor Park Hyung-jun) has decided to determine the names of the Children's Newspaper and the Children's Reporters Group together with citizens ahead of the launch of the Busan Children's Newspaper in June. A citizen preference survey will be conducted from the 21st to the 25th.

This survey will be conducted on the final six candidates selected through internal and expert reviews from about 800 submissions received during the naming contest held from January 2 to 24.

The candidates for the Children's Newspaper name are ▲‘Busan Aira Johta’ (Busan Kids Are Great) ▲‘Children BIG Newspaper’ ▲‘Busan Ai Dorandoran’ (Busan Kids Chatting). The candidates for the Children's Reporters Group name are ▲‘Kkoma Busan Gijadan (Kkobugidan)’ ▲‘Children BIG Reporters’ ▲‘Dorandoran Reporters’.

The survey will be conducted in two ways: online and on-site. The online survey will be available through the city’s website, and the on-site survey will be conducted by placing stickers on a billboard set up on the first floor of City Hall.

On-site voting will be available from the 24th to the 25th, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., in the lobby on the first floor of City Hall. Interested citizens can participate in the voting.

The winning entries will be finally decided by combining 70% of the expert judging committee’s scores and 30% of the citizen preference survey scores, and the results will be announced on the city’s website notice board by the end of February.

Among the final selected names, one grand prize winner will receive a gift certificate worth 500,000 KRW, two excellence award winners will receive gift certificates worth 200,000 KRW each, and 50 participants will receive souvenirs.

Elementary school students in grades 4 to 6 who receive an excellence award or higher will be given a special opportunity to be preferentially selected for the first Children's Reporters Group.

Among the citizens who participate in this online preference survey, 50 will be randomly selected to receive coffee coupons.

Busan City aims to launch a Children's Newspaper written by children and read by children, and following the naming contest, plans to recruit the ‘Children's Reporters Group’ in March.

The Children's Reporters Group will recruit 200 students in grades 4 to 6 of elementary school, who will cover and experience various events in Busan and share stories about Busan from a child's perspective.

Park Kwang-myung, spokesperson for Busan City, said, “We appreciate the citizens’ interest in the naming contest for the Busan Children's Newspaper and Reporters Group,” and added, “Since the Busan Children's Newspaper is a newspaper created together with citizens for children, the future dream seeds, we hope many will participate in selecting the names of the newspaper and the reporters group.”

Busan City Hall.

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