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30/11/2023

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  • Sustainability

Kao Announces Winners of the Fourteenth Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children

Kao Corporation is pleased to announce the winners of the Fourteenth Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children. This year, in the 14th contest, we received 15,916 entries from all over the world. For the theme "Let's make our environment sustainable* , together!", each of the works was filled with diversity and many of them were honestly expressed the children's wishes depicting "we want to live like this", "This is the future we desire".

The contest has been held annually since 2010 and aims to encourage children around the world to think seriously about conservation of the environment around them and to take action in everyday life. Kao will also continue to engage in inspiring more people to think about their surrounding environments and lifestyles through the exhibitions of award-winning works, art events, videos that convey the children's thoughts and wishes, and Online Museum on Kao website.

Results

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"eco together" – Planet Earth Grand Prix
Name: Kodchapan Malisorn (14 years old)
Title of work: "Buuat Pa" - The Buddhist ritual to conserve forest

Prize Winners Age Residential Area
"eco together" –
Planet Earth Grand Prix (1)		 Kodchapan Malisorn 14 Thailand
"eco together" – Kao Prize (8) Chien-jou Lin 12 Taiwan
Kanyaphon Kaentao 10 Thailand
Lai Chean Loo 10 Malaysia
Melek Gunerova 9 Bulgaria
Nagisa Ichihara 11 Japan
Olexandra Sergijivna Palii 11 Ukraine
Titaree Kaensontea 9 Thailand
Zoey Huang 7 Taiwan
Eco Friend Prize /
Jury's Special Prize (7)		 Please refer to the appendix list of winners.
Eco Friend Prize (16)
Group Prize (5)
  • *  Names are in alphabetical order. For details, please refer to the appendix list of winners.
  • *  Presentation of winning works and Preliminary and final screenings will be posted on the Kao Corporation website later.

Contest Outline

Theme:

"Let's make our environment sustainable* , together!"
What can we do to protect our precious local and global environment and how can we pass it on to future generations? Please express your thoughts and ideas freely in your painting.

  • * A sustainable environment stays healthy for many, many years into the future. It is a world where all animals and plants live together in harmony without fear.

Eligibility:

Children around the world between the ages of 6 and 15 years

Organized by:

Kao Corporation

Screening Details

Final Screening date:

October 11, 2023

Total entries:

15,916 paintings
(798 works from Japan and 15,118 works from abroad)

Juries

Mr. Fumikazu Masuda:

Chair of Juries, Design Consultant, President, open house inc.

Ms. Sumiko Okubo:

Artist

Mr. Kei Matsushita:

Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts

Ms. Yoko Oyamada:

Artist, Illustrator

Mr. Andreas Schneider:

Designer

Mr. Yasunori Hosokawa:

Director, Kao Eco-Lab Museum, Kao Corporation

Mr. Naoto Katahira:

Vice President, Creative, Kao Corporation

Awards Ceremony

The awards ceremony for the top prize winners will be held by online in December 2023.

With the corporate purpose "To realize a Kirei World in which all life lives in harmony", Kao Group established its ESG strategy, the Kirei Lifestyle Plan in April 2019, and since 2021, has been employing the Kao Group Mid-term Plan 2027 (K27) with its vision of "protecting future lives" and "sustainability as the only path".
Kao will continue seeking to build the future of our children's dreams "A world of harmony and potential for all life".

About Kao

Kao creates high-value-added products and services that provide care and enrichment for the life of all people and the planet.Through its portfolio of over 20 leading brands such as Attack, Bioré, Goldwell, Jergens, John Frieda, Kanebo, Laurier, Merries and Molton Brown, Kao is part of the everyday lives of people in Asia, Oceania, North America and Europe. Combined with its chemical business, which contributes to a wide range of industries, Kao generates about 1,550 billion yen in annual sales. Kao employs about 35,400 people worldwide and has 136 years of history in innovation. Please visit the Kao Group website for updated information.

Media inquiries should be directed to:

Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children
Kao (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. [Company No. 197301000489 (14023-V)]
20th Floor, Menara AmFIRST, No. 1, Jalan 19/3,
46300 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

+603-7957 4488 (Ext. 167, Ms. Evelyne)
FAX
+603-7957 4487

Inquiries regarding the painting contest should be directed to:

Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children Office

+603-7957 4488 (Ext. 167, Ms. Evelyne)

(Phone available only on working days from 8:30am–5:30pm, unavailable on weekends and holidays)

FAX
+603-7957 4487

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