Gyeongbuk Province 1st Youth Webtoon Contest 'Grand Prize' Awarded to Park Hyunwook for 'Chungkan Noise'

Selected 16 Works to Receive 41 Million Won Creative Support Fund and Serialization on Major Platforms

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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] Gyeongsangbuk-do announced on the 20th that the grand prize of the '1st Happy Gyeongbuk Youth Webtoon Contest' was awarded to Park Hyun-wook's submission, 'Noise Between Floors.'

This contest, held for the first time this year, was co-hosted by Gyeongsangbuk-do and Gyeongsan City and organized by the Korea Cartoonists Cooperative. It took place from July 22 to August 18. The organizer selected the final 16 award-winning works through preliminary and main rounds of judging by webtoon experts from a total of 108 entries.

The grand prize-winning work, 'Noise Between Floors,' tells the story of a protagonist suffering from noise caused by a gangster family living upstairs. It was praised for its innovative direction that appropriately used spatial backgrounds in the webtoon story.

The webtoon category's excellence award winner, 'My Hometown' (Jung Young-in), features a story set in the Gyeongbuk region about the beginning of a young myth at a rural restaurant. The work received favorable reviews for the author's understanding and affection for Uiseong-gun.

Other award-winning works in the webtoon category include ▲ Excellence Awards: 'Jina's Butler' (Haering, Dwingurding), 'FireBird' (Kim Do-hyun) ▲ Encouragement Awards: 'Box Head and the Little Witch' (Daegaldokki), 'Hope Torture Office' (Choi Eun-kyung, Kim Young-joo), 'Myth Immersed in Another World' (Si-hwa) ▲ Gyeongbuk Content Awards: 'Yonga' (Han Ga), 'Cheongdo' (Seo Sang-bae).

In the web story category, the winners are ▲ Excellence Award: 'The Tyrant's Daughter is Unhappy' (Ji Eun-seol) ▲ Excellence Awards: 'Iron Armor' (Suyo), 'Although Newly Born, I am the Female Lead' (Ahn Jeong-eun) ▲ Encouragement Awards: 'The Baby Dragon Became the Butler' (Dalsatang), 'Life-Stealing Game' (Kim Milk), 'A Some Card' (Lee Eun-hyun) ▲ Gyeongbuk Content Award: 'The Gallbladder-Less Guy' (Park Ji-young, Jung So-yeon).

Prize money totaling 41 million KRW will be awarded, with 10 million KRW for the grand prize and 5 million KRW each for two excellence awards (one per category). Notably, the grand prize and excellence award-winning works will be given opportunities to be serialized on popular platforms such as KakaoPage and Ridibooks.

The award ceremony and exhibition will be held online due to COVID-19 and can be viewed around October on the Happy Gyeongbuk Youth Webtoon Contest website.

Kim Sang-cheol, Director of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Bureau, stated, "Webtoons are a high value-added cultural content industry actively developed into secondary and tertiary one-source multi-use (OSMU) content such as movies and dramas," adding, "Gyeongbuk will continue to promote various support policies to maximize the cultural and economic value of webtoon content."