“Content Category Story Division” Grand Prize awarded to Lee Yu-mi’s ‘Ille’ for featuring Jeju folklore.

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Selects 15 Pieces for K-Content Source Stories… Awards Ceremony at COEX Today,
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2025 Korea Content Awards Story Category Winners
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, ” (Seoul=Yonhap News) Reporter Lim Soon-hyun = ‘Ille’, created by author Lee Yumi, who crafted an intriguing universe based on traditional Jeju folklore, has been selected as this year’s top ‘content source story’.”,
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, ” The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, along with the Korea Creative Content Agency, announced on the 25th that ‘Ille’ was chosen as the winner in the ‘2025 Korea Content Awards Story Category’.”,
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, ‘ Celebrating its 17th year, the Story Category of the Content Awards is a government-hosted contest aimed at discovering source stories that can develop into various fields of K-content, including comics, webtoons, performances, animations, dramas, and films.’,
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, ‘ The grand prize-winning \’Ille\’ is a story about a girl who engages with \’Ille-shin\’, a local deity from Jeju who governs child-rearing and illness, and the adventures she undertakes over seven days to save her sister. The judges noted, “The story creatively reimagines characters and a universe based on regional folklore, with a sophisticated narrative structure and high-engagement storytelling,” explaining their selection.’,
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, ” The excellence awards go to four works: ‘Post-it Lady’ (Chae Heon), ‘Desecration of a Corpse’ (Kim Min-soo), ‘Crocodile’ (Jang Eun-joon), and ‘Auctioneer Yi Seunghwa’ (Jo Ji-eun).”,
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, ” The merit awards were given to 10 stories, including ‘The Modern Girl of Hanyang History’ (Jeong Eun-hwa), ‘Fracture’ (Choi Young-in), ‘Interpreter Grace’ (Kye Gyeong-bae), and ‘Suddenly’ (Park Jae-hyeon).”,
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, ” The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency plan to provide follow-up support such as ‘business consultation meetings’ to help the award-winning works expand into diverse content such as dramas, films, novels, and webtoons.”,
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, ‘ The awards ceremony will be held in the afternoon at COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.’,
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