Cha Jin-Hye, a student from the KIU Department of Fashion Design, along with four other students: Cho Woo-Sung, Kim Jin-Ho, Kim Un-Jung (a sophomore) and Cho Hye-Rim (a junior), won the excellence award at ���The 42nd Andong International Maskdance Festival Costume Creation Contest.���

KIU students majoring in fashion design made costumes that reflect Korea���s own beauty and intensity by using images of dancing dragons and Hangul under the theme of ���Dreaming World, Birth of a Hero��� in the contest. The Maskdance Festival was supported by both Andong City and the Andong Festival Tourism Foundation.

The students were awarded the excellence award in the finals after passing several preliminary rounds under the guidance from Professor Lee Joo-Young, and the students received prize money of 500,000 won and and support money of 200,000 won, too.

A student representative, Cha Jin-Hye, a junior fashion design major, said, ���We have spent so much time together after class preparing and planning for this contest and we learned a lot from each other through collaboration. Because of this, we received an amazing result. I would like to thank our Professor, Lee Joo-Young, for helping us and other co-students who worked with us.���