The 2016 Writing Contest on Korean Culture is open to students K-12.
Applications are due to the Korean Cultural Centre on 16 September 2016, with the winners announced at a special awards ceremony on 7 October 2016.
For full details, including application from, please download the attached documents.
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For more information, contact the Korean Cultural Centre on 02 8267 3488.

KAAF Art Prize 2014
Entries close on 31 October 2014. The Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Prize (KAAFP) is the annual art competition organised by the foundation. The KAAFP 2014 is open-themed and only medium of 2D works is eligible to apply for the competition. The prize entry is open to all Australian citizens or Australian permanent residents of at least 12 months, but they should be over 18-year-old. Last year at its inaugural prize, Vladimir Barac (Nowra, NSW) won the honourable first prize with 5,000 prize money. This year, the prizes come with better scales.
     First Prize: $10,000 (Non Acquisitive)
     KAAF Members’ choice prize: $1,000
     Young Artist Prize (Age 18 - 25): Return flight ticket to Seoul, Korea
The finalists’ works will be exhibited at the Korean Cultural Office Gallery which is located in the centre of Sydney CBD, 255 Elizabeth St, Sydney.
For more information, visit the KCO website: http://koreanculture.org.au/

The National Unification Advisory Council Australia invites you to take part in a video production competition. The competition is open to people of all ages living in Australia.
An entry video clip (documentary, animation or short film) must be at least 3 minutes but less than 8 minutes in length, with a topic related to harmony, peace or unification of the Korean peninsula. Both English and Korean languages are permitted.
Submission should be by 10 November 2014.
The prize winners will be invited to the award ceremony and special screening night in early December.

Dear all teachers and parents, 
 
Congratulations! On behalf of the Korean Cultural Office, I am pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 Korean Book Review Competition. Please find the attachment of the winner of the 2014 Korean Book Review Competition. 
 
The Award Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, 27th August at 1:30 pm at the Korean Cultural Office. All winners need to come to the Korean Cultural Office by 12:30 pm  for the rehearsal. Also we mostly welcome all teachers, winners' family members and friends to celebrate the award. We are glad and sincerely appreciate the participation of all students. 

If you have any inquires please do not hesitate to contact me.  
Kind regards, 
Kate Minji 
02 8267 3488

2014 Korean Book Review Competition Due is on Friday 9 May 2014 .

For more information, follow the link in the blog side bar.

 school@koreanculture.org.au

2014 KOREAN BOOK REVIEW COMPETITION
2014 한국어 독후감 대회

The Korean Book Review Competition is an annual Korean book
review writing competition for schools in Australia, hosted by the Korean Cultural Office, Australia.
The competition is open to all students from Kindergarten to Year
12, who would like to discover the joys of reading Korean stories to improve their Korean language and cultural skills. The entrants will be divided into one of the following four categories. 

Division A  – Korean as a heritage or a background language       
Category I: Primary School students who learn Korean as a community language.     
Category II: High School students who learn Korean as a community language.
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Division B  – Korean as a second language or a foreign language -         
Category III: Primary School students, the student’s or their parent’s first language should not be Korean.-         
Category IV: High School students, the student’s or their parent’s first language should not be Korean. 

Each category is given different requirements for submitting the book review. Entries can be coordinated as a group and submitted by the Korean language teacher. 
 
The entries are judged by a panel consisting of representatives from the Korean language teachers’ ommunities, academics, and the Korean Consulate, Sydney. The winners will be invited to the 2014 Korean Book Review Competition Award Ceremony at Korean Cultural Office in June 25, 2014. They will also have the opportunity to read their winning entry on the Korean Cultural Office podcast.

Prizes: Gift vouchers and other special prizes will be awarded to each winner in each category by Korean Cultural Office, the Korean Consulate and the Korean Embassy. Grand Prizes, signed by the Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Korea and the Minister of NSW Department of Education and Communities, will be awarded for the first winner of each Division. Certificates will be awarded for the first, second, third places and encouragement prize for each category. All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. 

Rules: Entries MUST be student’s original work. The book reviews must address a Korean fiction or non-fiction book that fits into the theme for each category. A Cover page form and a Permission to use students' work form must be submitting for each entry.
 
Due: Entries should be received by Friday 9 May 2014 and addressed to Korean Cultural Office, Ground Floor, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney 2000 NSW, or by email, school@koreanculture.org.au

For further details, contact Korean Cultural Office on (02) 8267 3400.