Hwaseong Becomes First Municipality to Hold AI Commercial Film Contest

[Suwon Ilbo=Lee Su-won Reporter] Hwaseong City is holding the 'Hwaseong City AI Commercial Film Contest,' the first of its kind among local governments nationwide, providing citizens with opportunities and experience in producing creative video content utilizing AI technology.

Running from the 28th through November 24, this contest takes place under the slogan "Imagination bursts forth. The future expands," featuring commercial film production incorporating rapidly emerging AI technology. The contest aims to commemorate the launch of the Special City status next year while widely promoting the vision of 'AI City Hwaseong Special City.'

The contest theme is 'Everything about Hwaseong Special City Using Generative AI,' with submission categories including commercial film content and images, submitted via homepage registration and SNS upload.

The 'Hwaseong City AI Commercial Film Contest' is held as part of the '4th Byeolbyeol Hwaseong Awards,' which began in 2021 and has grown into a representative brand of local government contests. Through this contest offering near-record prize money domestically, the city plans to further accelerate its positioning as Korea's number one AI city.

The total prize pool is 600 million won. By category, for commercial films (1920×1080), the grand prize winner receives 10 million won, two runners-up receive 5 million won each, three award winners receive 3 million won each, and six merit award winners receive 1 million won each.

For the image category (1920×1920), the grand prize winner receives 1 million won, five runners-up receive 700,000 won each, seven award winners receive 500,000 won each, and ten merit award winners receive 300,000 won each.

Anyone residing in South Korea may participate. Applications are accepted from 9 a.m. on the 28th through 6 p.m. on November 24 on the Byeolbyeol Hwaseong Awards website (https://adawards.hscity.go.kr). There is no limit on submissions per person, but duplicate awards are not permitted.

Judging will take place over four rounds from November 25 through December 19, including public verification, with selected works to be announced on December 20 on the 'Byeolbyeol Hwaseong Awards' website.

Mayor Jung Myung-geun of Hwaseong stated, "This contest embodies Hwaseong City's vision to establish our status as an AI future city ahead of the launch of Hwaseong Special City in 2025," and emphasized, "Please continue to watch Hwaseong City's vigorous efforts leading the AI era."