KT&G (CEO Min Young-jin) is recruiting amateur photographers to participate in “One Day Shot,” a record of 24 hours in Seoul in photos, until August 15.  

Entry is open to anyone interested in photography. All they have to do is to register the photos they have taken and motives for participation on the website (sangsang.ktng.com). On submitting an application, an applicant can choose a picture-taking area with a professional photographer whose mentoring he/she wants to have.

KT&G is scheduled to screen the photos submitted by applicants and select a total of 44 persons. They will have a workshop with their mentors twice, and set out on a picture-taking tour, recording a day in the life of Seoul from 0 to 24:00 hours on September 7.

The photos taken on this day are planned to be displayed in the Hongik University Sangsang Madang, and to be published as photo collections. In particular, two photographers selected as the best through the final screening will be provided with an opportunity to make presentations of their works and meet the audience in the “Sangsang (Imagination) Realization Festival” to be held in November together with certificates to take photograph courses offered by Sangsang Madang.

A KT&G official said, “‘One Day Shot’ is one of the representative domestic photography programs that have been run without interruption since 2008, when recording a day around Hongdae area (front of Hongik Univ.) was started,” adding that “it will be a forum for amateur photographers to realize their imaginations through a series of programs that lead to publishing and exhibitions followed by mentoring and picture taking.”