No. 83 | May 2020
KSIF Newsletter
KSIF conducts King Sejong Institute
Korean Speech/Writing Contests for 2020
- Preliminaries being held for speech contest at 91 KSIs and writing contest at
78 KSIs from April through July
- Preliminaries to be held online at certain KSIs due to COVID-19 (selected
individuals are eligible to receive language training in Korea in October)
The preliminaries for the King Sejong Institute Korean Speech/Writing Contests 2020 are
currently underway.
This year, preliminaries are being held for the speech contest at 91 KSIs and for the
writing contest at 78 KSIs. Both preliminaries will be conducted from April through July,
with two major changes from last year. First, all are welcome to participate, including not
only KSI learners but any non-Korean citizen who is interested in Korean. Second,
the preliminaries will be held online at some KSIs due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The themes for the speech contest are “My favorite part of Korean culture” and
“Building my future through Korean.” Meanwhile, the themes for the writing contest are
“Introducing my Korean teacher” and “What I would do if I became a Korean teacher.”
The preliminaries are held at relevant KSIs. Participants who pass the preliminary round
will be eligible to attend the “Korean Cultural Experience Program For King Sejong
Institute Learners 2020” conducted by the KSIF in Korea in October. The final round will
be held during the training period, with finalists granted the opportunity to receive
short-term Korean language training.
The King Sejong Institute Speech/Writing Contests is the KSIF’s most representative
scholarship program. In 2019, a total of 4,000 foreign learners participated in the
preliminaries for both contests. The winners of both contests will be invited by the KSIF
to take part in language training in October.
▲ Finalists of King Sejong Institute Speech Contest
▲ Participants of “Korean Cultural Experience Program
2019 participate while wearing the traditional attire of
For King Sejong Institute Learners 2019” pose after
their native country.
a taekwondo performance for which they practiced to
pull off perfectly.