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’외국인 유학생이 바라보는 한국 공공외교‘ 공모전 개최
Foreign students’ competition for suggests on public diplomacy opened

An open competition to gather foreign students’ ideas on public diplomacy has been opened, according to Jeju National University’s Department of Political Science and Diplomacy.

The competition will be promoted as a university support project of Korea Foundation in the 2020-2021 academic year to strengthen South Korean public diplomacy.

Those Jeju National University students who wish to join the competition are asked form a team of one to two members including a foreign student.

Entries will be accepted when PowerPoint presentations or user-created contents with the theme of “South Korea’s public diplomacy from the foreign student’s perspective” have been sent to the organizers by May 30.

Five teams, which will be finalized after the first screening, will give presentations in the seminar on June 4 in the university’s Ara Convention Hall. The winners will receive the prize money worth 500,000 won for the first prize, 300,000 won for the second prize, and 200,000 for the third prize.

The June 4 presentation event will be broadcast live online.

Prof. Kim Jin-ho, head of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, expressed his high hopes that the competition will help understand the foreign student’s perspectives of South Korean public diplomacy and call for the local community’s attention to the subject.