Do you enjoy K-drama, K-pop, K-food, K-beauty, or Korean culture as a whole? Have you been seeking a chance to visit South Korea or to demonstrate your appreciation for Korean culture? Then look no further because there are four ongoing competitions in which all admirers of Korean culture, regardless of nationality, can compete, with each offering incredible prizes, including a fully funded trip to South Korea before the end of 2023.
Talk Talk Korea 2nd Contest: K-Beauty or K-Fashion (July 31 to September 3)
This competition seeks entries that focus on K-Beauty or K-Fashion (traditional or modern), and can be expressed through drawing, webtoon, photography, video, or essay. You can write about what you like about K-beauty or why you think K-beauty is popular around the world in each of these categories. You can also draw yourself in Korean attire, take images of Korean beauty or fashion style, create a personal vlog about k-beauty, or do anything else relating to your passion for K-Beauty or K-Fashion. A total of 80 winners will be chosen for this competition. The first prize winners (8 people) will receive a free trip to Korea (8 nights, 9 days); second prize winners (8 people) will get a Samsung Galaxy Book; third prize winners (12 people) will receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab; fourth prize winners (12 people) will be given a Samsung Galaxy Smartphone; and fifth prize winners (40 people) will get a $50 Amazon Gift Card. All 80 winners are going to get additional Talk Talk Korea Souvenirs. To enter the competition, simply go to Talk Talk Korea’s Instagram page (talktalkkoreacontest), learn more, and apply via the link in their bio.
Talk Talk Korea 3rd Contest: K-Culture (August 14 to September 17)
For this third contest, you are asked to create content regarding Korean culture using drawing, webtoon, photography, video, or essay. In each of these categories, you can write about the uniqueness of Korean culture, your imagined life in Korea, images from Korean festivals, personal vlogs about K-culture, or anything else relating to your passion for Korean culture. A total of 80 winners will be chosen for this competition. There will be a total of 80 winners: The first prize winners (8 people) are going to receive a free trip to Korea (8 nights, 9 days); second prize winners (8 people) will receive a Samsung Galaxy Book; third prize winners (12 people) will receive a Samsung Galaxy Tab; fourth prize winners (12 people) will get a Samsung Galaxy Smartphone; and the fifth prize winners (40 people) will be given a $50 Amazon Gift Card. All 80 winners will also receive additional Talk Talk Korea Souvenirs. To enter the competition, simply go to Talk Talk Korea’s Instagram page (talktalkkoreacontest), learn more, and apply via the link in their bio.
Talk Talk Korea Special Contest: Introducing Korea (July 17 to September 17)
This special contest entails expressing your knowledge, direct/indirect experiences or reviews on anything about Korean through drawing or video. For this category, you can create drawings about places in Korea or do a video that showcases various attraction sites in Korea. For this competition, a total of 80 winners will be selected. The first prize winners (8 people) will get a free trip to Korea (8 nights, 9 days); the second prize winners (8 people) will get Samsung Galaxy Book; the third prize winners (12 people) will get Samsung Galaxy Tab; the fourth prize winners (12 people) will get Samsung Galaxy Smartphone; while the fifth prize winners (40 people) will get $50 Amazon Gift Card. There will also be additional Talk Talk Korea Souvenirs to all 80 winners. To participate in the competition, kindly visit the Instagram page of Talk Talk Korea (talktalkkoreacontest), learn more, and apply via the link on their bio.
2023 Korean Literature Review Contest- Dive in K-Literature (July 10 to September 30)
This competition calls on all Korean literature enthusiasts to dive into the world of Korean literature. To enter the contest, you are invited to submit a book review, video, or drawing (poster/webtoon/calligraphy) on any one of these five books: 1) Whale by Cheon Myeong-Kwan; 2) Concerning my daughter by Kim Hye-Jin; 3) If we can’t go at the speed of light by Kim Cho-Yeop; 4) The School Nurse Files by Chung Serang; and 5) Hope is Lonely by Kim Seung-hee. For this competition, a total of 123 winners will be chosen. The grand prize winners (3 people) will get a free trip to Korea; the first prize winners (15 people) will get a Tablet PC; the second prize winners (30 people) will receive an E-book reader; while the third prize winners (75 people) will get $50 Amazon Gift Card. In addition, all the winners will automatically qualify as global ambassadors of the Korean Literature Review Contest. To participate in the competition, kindly visit the Instagram page of the Korean Literature Review Contest (klrc_official), learn more, and apply via the link on their bio.
The deadline for most of these competitions is fast approaching so try to apply as soon as possible. Good luck, I will share more of them as soon as I come across them.