November 29, 2023
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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". Results “eco together”- Planet Earth Grand Prix *Names are in alphabetical order. For details, please refer to the appendix list of winners. Contest Outline Screening Details Awards Ceremony The awards ceremony for the top prize winners will be held by online in December 2023. 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.
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. 
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)
*Presentation of winning works and Preliminary and final screenings will be posted on the Kao Corporation website later.
"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.
Children around the world between the ages of 6 and 15 years
Kao Corporation
October 11, 2023
15,916 paintings (798 works from Japan and 15,118 works from abroad)
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
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”.
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