Musical HOPE Sweeps Eight Awards at Korea Musical Awards

The musical HOPE: The Unread Story and the Non-readable Life created by ARKO(Arts Council Korea)-K-Arts(Korea National University of Arts) Musical Theater Writing Academy (ARKO-K-Arts Academy) conquered eight awards the 4^th Korea Musical Awards. Earlier in last October, HOPE had won the Musical of the Year at the 8^th Yegreen Musical Award. Winning eight awards this time again, the musical attained to glory of the best musical of last year. The eight categories awards were presented are Grand Prize, Script Writing (Kang Nam), Music Composition (Kim Hyo-Eun), Producing (Oh Hoon-Sik, the main producer of R&D Works), Directing (Oh Ruppina), Music Mixing and Directing (Shin Eun-Kyung), Best Actress (Kim Seon-Yeung), Best Supporting Actress (Lee Ye-Eun).

Scriptwriter Kang Nam and music composer Kim Hyo-Eun are 4^th graduates of ARKO-K-Arts Academy hosted by Arts Council Korea and supervised by the K-Arts. Making of HOPE was sponsored by the academy’s program.

The plot of HOPE is inspired by the true story of a 78-year old lady Eva Hoffe who had been in legal battles for thirty years with Israel’s National Library over taking possession of the writer Franz Kafka’s unpublished papers. The musical was acclaimed for its good storyline and music since its premiere.

Head professor Choi Jong-Yoon of ARKO-K-Arts Academy commented, “HOPE’s accomplishments demonstrate how the academy can produce creators who can contribute to the musical market in the long term and reaffirm the importance of co-working .”