Eligibility: US and Canadian residents age 25 and younger
Categories: sijo and essay

Status: closed (results)
Competition deadline: January 31, 2013
previous years' winning entries

Eligibility: pre-college students
Categories: violin and piano

Status: closed (results)
Application deadline: November 17, 2012
Competition date: December 2, 2012
watch past winners' concerts

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

Status: closed (results)
Competition deadline: June 30, 2012

Oct 5 – Sejong Prize Winners Concert
     (2012 Sejong Int'l Music Composition Competition)
Oct 13 – Benefit Dinner with keynote speaker
     Marja Vongerichten from The Kimchi Chronicles
Nov 16 – Sijo Writing Workshop
Nov 16 – Sijo Poetry at the Poetry Foundation
Dec 8 – 2013 Music Competition
Jan 31 – 2014 Writing Competition 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.