Eligibility: pre-college students
     (now open to Canadian students)
Categories: sijo and essay

Status: closed (info)
Competition deadline: March 31, 2012
previous years' winning entries

Eligibility: pre-college students
Categories: violin and piano

Status: closed (results)
Winners' Concert: January 8, 2012 (info)
Competition date: December 10, 2011
watch past winners' concerts

The Sejong Prize for Music Composition
Eligibility: open to all composers

Status: open
Competition deadline: June 30, 2012

January 8, 2012 - Winners' Concert
February 25, 2012 - Benefit Dinner
March 31, 2012 - Writing competition deadline
June 30, 2012 - Sejong Prize deadline

The sijo poetry form captures a Harvard professor's imagination - Read the Boston Globe's interview of Sejong Cultural Society Writing Committee member and competition judge David McCann on sijo in America.   more

KBS broadcast (in Korean) - Korean news station KBS covered the Sejong Cultural Society's series of sijo events in April 2010, including a sijo-based poetry reading session with Korean traditional music, writing workshop, and seminar for English teachers.