Arts Council Korea
(http://www.arko.or.kr)Arts Council Korea was established to promote creativity and enjoyment of the arts by supporting diverse arts and cultural
activities in Korea. The Council consists of eleven dedicated professinals of the culture and arts sector in Korea.
They are responsible for devising arts policy based upon consultation with artists and cultural practitioners while playing
a vital role in encouraging public inolvement, particularly in the decision-making process. This structure has enabled
artists to be transformde from mere beneficaries to legislators and administrators of the policies that involve them,
The Council will continue its ettorts to innovate the traditional cultural administrative system to be more responsive and
adaptive to the rapidly changing arts and cultural sector. It will facilitate the rise of practice-oriented policy implementation
in line with the increasingly sophisticated cultural enviroment of Korea.
The National Center
for Korean Traditional Performing Arts (http://www.ncktpa.go.kr)The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing
Arts, an affiliate of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism,
consists of three parts: an exclusive Performing Company,
Administration departments and a Research Team. The
Performing Company inherits the traditional arts; the
Administration departments set programs to promote the
performances and education; and the Research Team for
traditional music builds the basis of Korean music.
The Team also operates the Museum of Korean Traditional
Music for the specialized archives and The Traditional
Center for Korean Performing Arts, an affiliate in Namwon,
Jeollabuk-do, for the promotion of local music of Korea.
The Korean
National University of Arts (http://www.knua.ac.kr)- Music Academy
Music Academy, the first in Korea, is just a conservatory. It has a lot in common with Juliard, Curtis, Paris, in curriculum and teaching method. To raise international musicians with our endeavor, it checks the problems in music education and sets up new and effective curriculum. In other word, it was born as a Korean-styled conservatory, which was different from others in many aspects.
Here, with the passions of professors who strive to make it the best one and students who want to be international musicians, it has developed so much for 8 years since its start.
The Seoul Performing
Arts Company (http://www.spac.co.kr/)
National Association of Cultural & Arts Centers (http://www.nacac.or.kr/)
Music Academy, the first in Korea, is just a conservatory. It has a lot in common with Juliard, Curtis, Paris, in curriculum and teaching method. To raise international musicians with our endeavor, it checks the problems in music education and sets up new and effective curriculum. In other word, it was born as a Korean-styled conservatory, which was different from others in many aspects.
Here, with the passions of professors who strive to make it the best one and students who want to be international musicians, it has developed so much for 8 years since its start.
- Dance Academy
Dance Academy, the first advanced school for dance only, aims to be an international dance academy. Its basic objective is to rear dancing artists, teachers and producers. Dance Academy opened to support the dance education in college. Giving students an opportunity to get specialties and abilities for the 21st century, it became a professional dance school both in name and reality, which provided substantial dance education. And it founded KNUA Dance Company of its own in October 1997 with the main help of professors and students, and gave students opportunities to participate in the performances of the Company. Giving them experiences of performances through the production system, it has approached still more to the goal to raise professional dancers.
Dance Academy, the first advanced school for dance only, aims to be an international dance academy. Its basic objective is to rear dancing artists, teachers and producers. Dance Academy opened to support the dance education in college. Giving students an opportunity to get specialties and abilities for the 21st century, it became a professional dance school both in name and reality, which provided substantial dance education. And it founded KNUA Dance Company of its own in October 1997 with the main help of professors and students, and gave students opportunities to participate in the performances of the Company. Giving them experiences of performances through the production system, it has approached still more to the goal to raise professional dancers.
The Seoul Performing
Arts Company (http://www.spac.co.kr/)The Seoul Performing Arts Company was established
on August 1, 1986, with the founding ideal of dressing
the indigenous Korean performing arts in new attire
and promoting them around the world so as to share their
cultural benefits as widely as possible.
The Seoul Performing Arts Company has created many magnificent productions including musicals and traditional Korean songs and dances with its highly talented members.
Many of the members have been awarded top prizes by the Korean National Musical Awards as well as a variety of dance awards. The company has gone on the road in 40 countries, staging about 800 performances. All told it has attracted over three million viewers at home and abroad. Its performances at the closing and opening ceremonies of the Seoul Olympic Games '88, at the presentation to promote the World Cup 2002, and at the '99 Winter Asian Games have raised the company to a high standard of accomplishment.
For its participation in international events held in the United States, Japan, Africa, and Europe, the company has received superb reviews.
The remarkable and talented 62 members of the musical staff and dance staff of the Seoul Performing Arts Company are devoted to turning out new productions at a steady pace to serve as a window on the essence of Korea and its culture.
The Seoul Performing Arts Company has created many magnificent productions including musicals and traditional Korean songs and dances with its highly talented members.
Many of the members have been awarded top prizes by the Korean National Musical Awards as well as a variety of dance awards. The company has gone on the road in 40 countries, staging about 800 performances. All told it has attracted over three million viewers at home and abroad. Its performances at the closing and opening ceremonies of the Seoul Olympic Games '88, at the presentation to promote the World Cup 2002, and at the '99 Winter Asian Games have raised the company to a high standard of accomplishment.
For its participation in international events held in the United States, Japan, Africa, and Europe, the company has received superb reviews.
The remarkable and talented 62 members of the musical staff and dance staff of the Seoul Performing Arts Company are devoted to turning out new productions at a steady pace to serve as a window on the essence of Korea and its culture.
National Association of Cultural & Arts Centers (http://www.nacac.or.kr/)NACAC was established on November 8, 1995 in order to meet the need for an organization that would provide assistance to local cultural arts centers to produce quality software, adequately maintain hardware and serve as thehub for the network for these centers and make efforts to expand the culturalarts market nationwide.
It also aims to seek joint benefits of the member centers and contribute to the development of local culture and arts through the operation of the centers in a professional and efficient way.
Its status as a non-profit corporation is in accordance with the Civil Law, Article 32 and Rules on Establishment and Supervision of Non-Profit Corporations under Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Article 3.
It also aims to seek joint benefits of the member centers and contribute to the development of local culture and arts through the operation of the centers in a professional and efficient way.
Its status as a non-profit corporation is in accordance with the Civil Law, Article 32 and Rules on Establishment and Supervision of Non-Profit Corporations under Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Article 3.
