More than 800 schoolchildren selected from Korean schools in various areas of Japan took part in the contests in which they fully demonstrated the advantages and justness of the national education through which they learn the Korean language to their hearts' content.

Yun Hyon Ju, vice-director of the Education Department of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Eastern Japanese Regional Meeting, made a speech at the opening ceremony.

Sub-sector contests included recitation, poem recitation, eloquence, witty talk, artistic propaganda and drama.

Schoolchildren in the artistic propaganda sector gave a vivid description of their life experience like impression and joy they get when taking part in the New Year performance for 2020. They also fully demonstrated the might of unity they built through their school life as well as its vitality.

The schoolchildren in the drama sector showed well their happiness and delight of learning the Korean language to their hearts' content.