Registrations open for 6th Korea-India Friendship Quiz Competition
Korean Cultural Center India announces registration open for online ‘6th Korea–India Friendship Quiz Competition’. The purpose of the competition is to introduce the culture, traditions, cuisine, and general knowledge about The Republic of Korea to Indian students and help strengthen the Korea – India friendship.
The top 4 winners will win a victory trip to Korea.
Students from Class VII to XII from all over India can participate. The registration is open from April 1 to May 30, 2021. Students can apply through www.koreaindiaquiz2021.com
Seeing the growing interest of youth in Korean content, this year the contest will be held in 6 regions from 25 cities in 3 levels:
Level 1: Individual level online tests on quiz website
Level 2: City level quizzes on videoconference
Level 3: National level quizzes on video conference.
In Level 1 each student will get two attempts at the test, which will be timed for each player. In each school, the student with the highest score in the shortest time will be declared the winner and will qualify for Level 2 – the city quiz round, which will be conducted from June 12 to July 23, 2021.
The winners of Level 2 will compete in the National semi finale round(s) on July 26-27. The then winners of semi finale(s) will participate in national grand finale on July 30, 2021. The top 4 winners will get a free trip to South Korea.
The 6 regions include: North: Jammu, Chandigarh, Dehradun-Mussoorie, and Delhi-NCR, West: Mumbai-Pune, Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar, Jaipur, South: Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi-Ernakulam, Central: Nagpur, Indore-Bhopal, Raipur, East: Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Patna and in Northeast: Guwahati, Shillong and Darjeeling.
For reference and study material, students can avail the details from website of Korean Culture Center India, http://india.korean-culture.org/en.
The annual quiz competition inaugurated in 2016 had around 12,505 student’s participation in the first year. The participation number increased every year and till now total 1,31,740 number of students have participated in this contest.
