Korean composer Jeon Minjae has won the Grand Prize of The Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium for Composition 2009.

Jeon’s win this year, with his piece “Target,” makes it the second straight year that a Korean has won the composition segment after Jo Eun-hwa, who is based in Berlin, took first place last year. Jo’s win marked the first time for a Korean to have won in any one of the competition’s segments: piano, voice, violin and composition.

Jeon, who is 23 years old, is also the youngest to win the composition prize since the competition’s inception in 1937.

The Queen Elisabeth Competition is considered one of the top three music competitions in the world, together with Poland’s International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition and Russia’s International Tchaikovsky Competition.