PARIS South Korean tenor Yikun Chung won the Second Monte Carlo Voice Masters Competition late Saturday, organizers announced.

Yikun Chung, 32, won the sole prize of 30,000 euros donated by Prince Rainier III, whose name it bears.

The tenor was trained at Seoul University and in 1969 he received a diploma from the Verdi Conservatoire in Milan. He has won singing competitions in Geneva, Toulouse, Bilbao, Madrid and Vienna.

The Monte Carlo Voice Masters Competition for finalists of international singing contests takes place every five years. This year three Americans, one Korean, two Japanese, a Bulgarian, a Romanian and a French woman took part.

Finalist along with Yikun Chung was American tenor Bruce Sledge.