Yongin City Holds Representative Symbol Design Contest

Online Applications from 10 to 31
Prize Money of 5 Million Won for Winners

On the 7th, Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province announced that it will hold a 'Symbol Design Contest' to create a new brand representing the city.

This contest, promoted as a participatory project with citizens, was prepared to reflect excellent ideas and designs in the process of creating a new city symbol.

The contest category is an integrated urban brand design that embodies the future and identity of Yongin City, and anyone can freely apply. From the 10th to the 31st, participants can submit design proposals through the Yongin City Hall website and the 'Yongin City Urban Brand Sotongon' website.

The city will evaluate the submissions based on ▲symbolism ▲design ▲creativity ▲empathy ▲expandability, and select the final 10 works. The results will be announced on August 9th on the Yongin City website.

The grand prize winner will receive 5 million KRW and a mayoral award, and the excellence award winner will receive 2 million KRW and a mayoral award. Four winners of the merit award and four winners of the encouragement award will each receive 1 million KRW and 500,000 KRW respectively, along with mayoral awards. The winning works will undergo expert review and design refinement, and will be included as candidates in the citizen preference survey for the Yongin City symbol design.