Hope Tape by Korean National Police Agency

On International Missing Children’s Day (May 25), Cheil Worldwide and Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) announced the launch of Hope Tape campaign to help find long-term missing children. As per sources, 661 children went missing in last one year, 638 of them have been missing for five years.

Cheil created a new packaging tape – also named Hope Tape – which contains details of 28 children who have been missing for a long time. With HOPE TAPE, boxes delivered to every corner of the nation will be transformed into a new medium to spread information that are crucial in finding missing children.

Hope Tape carries children’s photos taken at the time of their disappearance, their age progression images using KNPA’s technology, and other information including their physical features and places last seen. It also contains QR code that connects to police’s dedicated mobile app where people can report and search about missing children, and register fingerprints of their children that can be later used in case of disappearance.
From May to June, HOPE TAPE will be used in packing 620 thousand parcels to be delivered across the country through courier service providers Korea post and Hanjin Transportation.

KNPA said, “We ask for the urgent attention and cooperation of citizens and communities around the country to help give hope and encouragement to families of children who have gone missing. By organizing the HOPE TAPE campaign, we seek to draw attention to this terribly sad situation.”

Seongphil Hwang, creative director at Cheil Worldwide, said, “With Coronavirus outbreak, people tend to stay home and use more of door-to-door delivery service in that parcels can be a highly effective medium to spread information of missing children. We wish HOPE TAPE provides real help to families who would not give up on searching their loved ones.”

Credits
Advertising Agency: Cheil, South Korea
Senior Vice President: Hun Choi
Creative Director: Seongphil Hwang
Creative Director: Hyungkyun Oh
Copywriter: Sekyeong Park
Art Director: Miyeon Shin
Art Director: Yeowool Kwon
Account Director: Joohong Min
Account Executive: Chan Kim
Account Executive: Kyunghoon Woo
Director: Kwangwon Cho / Illri Imagines
Film Producer: Dongjo An / Visionholdings
Film Producer: Sooyoung Yoon / Visionholdings