YU Team wins 'Grand Prize, Runner-up, and Special Award' at the 5th Eubcheon Port Gallery Wall Painting Contest
Added beauty and fun with works using the tales of Shimcheon and Byeoljubu
Winning pieces to fill the 'Eubcheon Port Wall painting Town' along the East Coast
[Sep 5, 2014]

 “A town's ambience can be completely changed with just one wall painting!”

 YU students added to the beauty of a coastal town filled with beautiful wall paintings. Students from the YU School of Fine Arts won the grand prize, runner-up and special awards at the '5th Eubcheon Port Gallery Wall Painting Contest' held at Eubcheon-ri, Yangnam-myeon in Gyeongju on the 23rd of last month.

 YU School of Fine Arts Yoo Eun-sang (24, senior) won the grand prize, and the Seo Ji-hyeon (22, junior), Jeon Hye-ji (21, junior) and Kwon Sun-hae (21, junior) team won the runner-up award, and the Eom Sang-yon (25, second term in master's degree course), Jin Jong-hwan (23, sophomore) and Kim Jong-min (22, sophomore) team won the special award.

 A total of 65 teams submitted their works to this contest co-hosted by the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Wolsong Nuclear Plant and the Korea Fine Arts Association Gyeongju branch. Based on the uniqueness of the work and practicality of the wall painting, 10 large wall paintings 17 small wall paintings and 1 illustration was selected. The 80 members of the 28 final teams painted the walls of the Eubcheon Port Wall Painting Town from July 12 to August 10 based on their works. The completed wall paintings were judged to select 1 first place, 1 runner-up, 3 third places, 5 complimentary awards, and 5 special awards.

<First Place 'Sea in Fairy Tales-Shimcheong'>

 The theme of this contest was 'Creative Works based on Children's Literature' and the winning work by Yoo Eun-sang was titled 'Sea in Fairy Tales-Shimcheong'. Yoo said "When I thought about Eubcheon Port where the wall painting would be made, the first thing that came to mind was the sea. 'Shimcheongjeon', the folklore loved by men and women of all ages came to mind so I used it as my theme." She added, "In the tale, Shimcheong appears on top of a lotus flower, but I wanted to add some fun to it by putting her on the move with a sea turtle of another fairy tale, 'Byeoljubujeon'."

 The 'Goblin World' that showed goblins, which often appear in folklores, playing in nature with children won the third place award, while the 'Antarctic Kingdom' that mixed and matched the 2013 smash hit animation 'Frozen' with Antarctica won the special award.

<Third place winner 'Goblin World'>

<Special award winner 'Antarctic Kingdom'>

 Jeon Hye-jin, who won third place, said, "I was always interested in wall paintings because unlike regular paintings in exhibits, it is a popular form that can be seen by anyone in public areas," and added, "I hope that people who come to this town can have a moment of relaxation by looking at our paintings."

 Meanwhile, the Eubcheon Port Wall Painting Town started in 2010 with 53 pieces through the 1st concert, and has been adding about 50 pieces every year. With the end of this year's contest, the nation's biggest wall painting town was made in which over 210 pieces are shown across a 2km long area stretching along the East Coast.