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Digital Cartoon Animation Students Awarded at Webtoon Contest

By Su-Young Kim, Reporter /kimsuyoung1342@gmail.com

  All participants, including the grand prize and the excellence prize, won the award at the mid-term webtoon contest “Webtoon Run”, which was held for university students nationwide by four students majoring in digital cartoon animation at the College of Arts.

  The Digital Cartoon Animation students at the College of Arts raised the status of the fine department in the comic and animation field with a feat won by all participants, including the grand prize, best prize, popularity prize, and encouragement prize, at the Webtoon Run, a mid-term webtoon contest held for university students nationwide at Jaedam Media about 90 works were submitted from 20 universities nationwide for the Webtoon Run, which was held to discover products and foster next generation webtoon artists. Webtoon Run was a public contest in which professors and students formed a team of mentors and mentees to reconstruct the webtoon creation process in the form of a marathon for a total of 42.195 days and the winners were selected through reader voting and PD evaluation.

  Now I will introduce some of the works that won the award. "Ebis" by the winner of the grand prize, penname Seung-gu (Kim Seung-Hwan, a sophomore student majoring in digital cartoon animation), depicts a bloody battle with a Hong Kong gangster to recover the severance pay poured into the game, and was well received by both readers and PDs for its cool development and colorful action. Based on the setting that the professor of the same department coincidentally lives in one house, the penname Kim Yeon-Geun (Kim Yeon-Jin, a sophomore student of digital cartoon animation majors), who comically describes the daily life of school and living alone, won the second prize. In addition to this, the highest number of views (penname: Kim Jang-Rae/ Kim Min-Hee, Senior of digital cartoon animation major) won the Encouragement Award, showing that all participants in Sangmyung University's digital comics and video major won the award. Professor Kim Byung-soo, who taught all four winners of the digital cartoon and video major, was awarded the Best Leader Award. Professor Kim Byung-soo, majoring in digital cartoon animation, said "In preparation for this competition, we shared opinions on the work with students every week to improve the completeness of the work," adding, "I am glad that the students' efforts have led to good results."

  The winning entries for the contest will be released free of charge until March through the subscription-type stop webtoon platform "Jadam Shorts" run by Jadam Media. I was also curious while writing the article, and I saw some works. It was so much fun, and I enjoyed reading them. I recommend you read them when you have time.

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