Winners Announced

On behalf of 604 Korean community leaders representing 20 nations in South East Asia and Oceania, the Asia Pacific Assembly of the National Unification Advisory Council called for, in September 2020, aspiring Korean experts to share their views on Peace on the Korean peninsula and public diplomacy in a 5000-word analytical, persuasive and assertive essay. (The competition was inaugurated to provide undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities in Asia Pacific region with a platform to share their perspectives on the inter-Korean peace and ties which were initiated by the South Korean President Moon Jae-in who is the Chairman of the National Unification Advisory Council, the constitutional body of the Republic of Korea.) The submissions were made by a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate students from University of NSW, UTS, University of Auckland, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indian Institute of Technology, and Indonesia National University. The entries were judged by the renowned academics with an expertise in the Korean peninsula issues: Prof. Jae-Hoon Jung(University of Queensland), Prof. David Hundt(Deakin University), Dr Il Hong Ko(Seoul National University), and Research Fellow Adrian Cohen(University of Queensland).