Hwaseong City Holds Awards Ceremony for '1 Million Hwaseong! AI Competition'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Su-won] Hwaseong City held an awards ceremony for the '1 Million Hwaseong! AI Competition' on the 16th at Hwaseong Citizen's University.

The competition, themed '1 Million Hwaseong City, 1 Million Dreams,' received a total of 622 works including images and videos created using generative AI from October 23 to November 24.

Through preliminary content reviews including eligibility screening and expert evaluation, 69 works were selected as candidates for the presentation review. The city selected final award-winning works through presentation review at the event.

At the awards ceremony, student Choi Lee-jun, who was selected as the grand prize winner for expressing a "picture diary" on the theme of "A Day at Dongtan Central Park," along with 3 excellence award winners, 9 merit award winners, and 21 encouragement award winners—a total of 34 recipients—received the honor of winning, and 35 students also received special recognition awards, providing participants and their parents with a time to celebrate and encourage one another.

Park Min-chul, director of the Department of Leisure, Culture, and Education, said, "We hope this competition held to commemorate Hwaseong City reaching a population of 1 million has provided students with an opportunity to build pride in Hwaseong City and experience generative AI, a future innovative technology," and added, "We will actively utilize the works that students carefully created and submitted by producing them as promotional videos for Hwaseong City to raise awareness of the city."