Title | A PRAYER (KOREA IS STILL ALIVE) |
Brand | KB KOOKMIN BANK |
Product / Service | CSR |
Category | A11. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) / Corporate Image |
Entrant | LBEST Seoul, SOUTH KOREA |
Idea Creation | LBEST Seoul, SOUTH KOREA |
Media Placement | LBEST Seoul, SOUTH KOREA |
Production | LBEST Seoul, SOUTH KOREA |
Name | Company | Position |
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Wonsook Kang | LBEST | Creative Director |
Hyeonjoo Seo | LBEST | Creative Director |
Yeosong Yoon | LBEST | Copywriter |
Jihyeon Park | LBEST | Art Director |
Jaeil Jeong | Glove Entertainment | Music Artist |
Hyeongjoon Cho | LBEST | Account Supervisor |
Jaeyoun Hwang | LBEST | Account Director |
Hongki Chae | LBEST | Account Executive |
Jinhyeong Cho | LBEST | Account Executive |
Yongjoon Cho | LBEST | Account Executive |
Kwangeun Ko | LBEST | Art Director |
As the representative bank of S. Korea, there was a willingness to carry out a public campaign to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement, a huge national issue. In particular, client did not want to pursue profits by taking timely issues as opportunities, like other companies, but rather wanted to carry out meaningful campaigns based on sincerity.
We learned from the article that there existed a song sung by a woman independence activist 100 years ago in prison, and now only the lyrics of the song are passed down to her descendants. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the March First Independence Movement, we wanted to melody this song to tell many people about the 100-year history.
With such purpose, we asked Music Director Jaeil Jeong, known for his lyrical music senses, to write a melody and asked South Korea’s representative solo singer Lena Park to sing for us. Also, former figure skater Yuna Kim, a huge global sports star, narrated the latter part of our video. We worked with them on music and filming, and ran advertisements so that the produced contents could be viral online.
The produced video was distributed for a month from the end of February to the end of March through online channels such as YouTube and facebook. We produced not only the video but also the sound source. Based on the sincerity of spreading the history, we distributed the sound source for free on the main music sites of S. Korea and on the homepage of KB Kookmin Bank.
As a result, the song received perfect score from Korea’s major music streaming site, Melon, was reported positively from major mass media, TV, and News Papers, and received over 90% positive comments from YouTube, facebook, and Melon. In response to this popularity, our video recorded more than 3 million views in one month, and was recently selected as a finalist at the AD STARS. Achieving our original project purpose, we were able to share a piece of our history from 100 years ago with the public.