Park Sung-il speaks out for cultural powerhouse needs to protect creators' rights and interests
Apr 03, 2025
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At 10 a.m. on the 7th, the 2nd National Assembly Debate on the Philosophy and Sustainability of Korean Cultural Policy will be held in the 2nd Seminar Room of the National Assembly Hall. The forum is co-hosted by Kang Yoo-jung, Kim Yoon-deok, Min Hyung-bae, Park Soo-hyun, Yang Moon-seok, Lee Ki-heon, Lim Oh-kyung, Jeon Jae-soo and Jo Gye-won, and is organized by the Cultural Power Network (Chairman Lee Woo-jong).
This forum will be held under the theme of 「Dialogue for a Cultural Power」-The Direction and Sustainability of Korean Cultural Policy'. The goal is to find a philosophical and practical direction in which creators and citizens, regions and the center can coexist, beyond simple administration or industrial development.
Choi Joon-ho, an honorary professor at the Korea National University of Arts, will chair the debate. Professor Choi is a scholar who has linked theory and policy in the field of culture and arts, and will hold presentations and discussions at this forum. Kang Yoo-jung, a member of the National Assembly (Chairman of the Special Committee on Culture and Arts of the Democratic Party of Korea), will deliver the keynote speech. Representative Kang will emphasize that cultural policies should be approached as a matter of citizens' lives and rights, not as a political means, and that policies should be reorganized into relationships and senses, art and language of life, not results-oriented.
Kim Hyun-hwan, a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, and Lee Won-jae, an adjunct professor at Kyung Hee Cyber University (Chairman of the Cultural Solidarity Executive Committee), will participate in the presentation. Professor Kim Hyun-hwan will discuss the philosophical basis of cultural policy design under the theme of 「Principles of Cultural Policy」 and present the basic structure and direction of policy. Under the theme of 'Sustainability of Cultural Policy', Professor Lee Won-jae presents the view that cultural policy should be shifted away from the short-term performance center to 'Attitude of Life', and plans to propose practical tasks accordingly.
Three experts will participate in the discussion that follows to hold in-depth discussions reflecting the policy field. Park Sung-il, the first panelist, is Korea's leading OST director who is in charge of music such as dramas 'I got tricked' and 'My Mister' and will convey the need to protect the rights and interests of creators and improve the structure of unfair contracts in the voice of the field.
The second debater, Ko Dong-hyun, a cultural sociologist with extensive experience in cultural policy research and implementation, diagnoses the structural problems of centralized cultural policies and suggests data-based regional-specific policy design and cultural decentralization. So Hong-sam, former head of the Uijeongbu Cultural Foundation, is a working-level expert familiar with local cultural planning and public cultural institutions, and he will emphasize the need for institutional supplementation and budget restructuring.
Lee Woo-jong, chairman of the Cultural Power Network, who hosted the forum, said, `Now that cultural policy is in a transition period, whether the Republic of Korea will remain a cultural laggard or move forward as a cultural power depends on how much we prepared for it"I hope this forum will serve as an opportunity to embody the philosophy and implementation strategy of cultural policy." He added that `We are all responsible for responding with culture and art to the `light cheering stick' created by citizens.'
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