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Yonhap press photo awards to open exhibition Wednesday
By Lee Haye-ah
SEOUL (Yonhap) - Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key news service, is set to open on Wednesday an exhibition of press photos depicting images related to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The exhibition will display more than 80 winning entries from the Yonhap International Press Photo Awards (YIPPA), announced last month, and run through Sept. 30 at the Old Seoul Station Museum in Seoul.
The opening ceremony will be attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae, Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, Grand National Party leader Hong Joon-pyo, Democratic Party leader Sohn Hak-kyu and Santiago Lyon, the chief judge of the photo contest, among others.
The photos, all of which depict scenes related to the eight MDGs -- including freedom from extreme poverty and hunger, achievement of universal primary education and the eradication of diseases -- will be displayed under their relevant themes and highlight the need for common human prosperity and environmental protection.
The displayed items were selected and awarded from a total of 1,938 pieces, or 5,536 photographs, submitted to the YIPPA by photojournalists and freelancers working in 71 countries. Emilio Morenatti, a photojournalist for The Associated Press, won the contest's top prize with "Cholera Victims," which shows the plight of people suffering from the disease in Haiti last year.
"The contest was the first of its kind for a South Korean media company, and the judges had a hard time choosing because we received so many remarkable pieces," said Cho Bo-hee, the photo desk editor of Yonhap who served as a member of the board of judges.
"The reality depicted in the photos could burden the heart and sometimes move it deeply, so I was prompted to look back on my own life," he said.
The same exhibition will run from Aug. 22 to Sept. 9 at the U.N. Headquarters Visitors' Lobby in New York and tour seven major South Korean cities, including Busan, Daegu and Gwangju, starting in September.
The proceeds of the exhibition will go to U.N. funds for disaster, poverty relief and environmental protection.
SEOUL (Yonhap) - Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's key news service, is set to open on Wednesday an exhibition of press photos depicting images related to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The exhibition will display more than 80 winning entries from the Yonhap International Press Photo Awards (YIPPA), announced last month, and run through Sept. 30 at the Old Seoul Station Museum in Seoul.
The opening ceremony will be attended by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae, Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, Grand National Party leader Hong Joon-pyo, Democratic Party leader Sohn Hak-kyu and Santiago Lyon, the chief judge of the photo contest, among others.
The photos, all of which depict scenes related to the eight MDGs -- including freedom from extreme poverty and hunger, achievement of universal primary education and the eradication of diseases -- will be displayed under their relevant themes and highlight the need for common human prosperity and environmental protection.
The displayed items were selected and awarded from a total of 1,938 pieces, or 5,536 photographs, submitted to the YIPPA by photojournalists and freelancers working in 71 countries. Emilio Morenatti, a photojournalist for The Associated Press, won the contest's top prize with "Cholera Victims," which shows the plight of people suffering from the disease in Haiti last year.
"The contest was the first of its kind for a South Korean media company, and the judges had a hard time choosing because we received so many remarkable pieces," said Cho Bo-hee, the photo desk editor of Yonhap who served as a member of the board of judges.
"The reality depicted in the photos could burden the heart and sometimes move it deeply, so I was prompted to look back on my own life," he said.
The same exhibition will run from Aug. 22 to Sept. 9 at the U.N. Headquarters Visitors' Lobby in New York and tour seven major South Korean cities, including Busan, Daegu and Gwangju, starting in September.
The proceeds of the exhibition will go to U.N. funds for disaster, poverty relief and environmental protection.
