Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education Students Win Minister of Health and Welfare Award for AI Video Project

- Result of the AI+Video Creation Intensive Workshop… “Yusaeng Studio” Team Takes Top Prize at National AI Video Contest for Public Health Promotion

Students who participated in the “AI+Video Creation Intensive Workshop” operated by the SKKU Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education(Director: Lee Se Young) demonstrated the effectiveness of the program by winning the top prize at a nationwide AI video contest.

The “Yusaeng Studio” team, consisting of Kim Yu-jung (Culture and Technology Convergence Major, ’22), Kim Ye-sol (Department of Consumer Science, ’19), Kim Hyeon-seo (Department of Global Economics, ’24), and Jo Hyeon-seo (Department of Global Business Administration, ’19), won the Minister of Health and Welfare Award along with a cash prize of KRW 10 million in the university division of the 2026 Eulji University President’s Cup National AI Video Contest for Public Health Promotion. The contest was held nationwide with the aim of spreading public health promotion messages through AI technology and fostering a sound culture of AI utilization.

▲Key scenes from the award-winning work “Is Your Garden Safe?” by the Yusaeng Studio team

The team’s award-winning piece, “Is Your Garden Safe?”, is an AI video that wittily addresses the issues of smoking and secondhand smoke from a university student’s perspective. By symbolically comparing the lungs to “a garden within our bodies” and employing an unexpected narrative twist, the work effectively conveys the risks that smoking poses not only to individuals but also to the wider community. The project received high praise for its organic use of generative AI throughout the entire production process, from planning and storyboarding to image and video generation and post-editing.

The Yusaeng Studio team is composed of students who systematically developed their skills in using generative AI, prompting techniques, and storytelling-based video production through the “AI+Video Creation Intensive Workshop” hosted by SKKU Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education. Even after the workshop concluded, the Center continued to support the students’ challenge by providing mentoring and production assistance for their contest submission.

The team also shared plans to use part of the prize money to pursue the establishment of an on-campus video creation cooperative and to challenge themselves with entrepreneurial ventures in the future.

Professor Lee Se-young, Director of the Knowledge Center for Innovative Higher Education, stated, “This award is a case that demonstrates how AI education can go beyond technical training to lead to the creation of social value and student-driven challenges,” adding, “We will continue to provide support so that students’ creative attempts and achievements can be sustained.”