Even with the gloomy, sad, depressing, painful, or distressing atmosphere and the main characters that are almost constantly disappearing or dying, the Western spectator is thankful for Korean movies, in …

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Jung strolled lonely through the streets of Seoul. He was five, hungry and lost, as many other kids in the immediate afterword of the Korean War. A police agent found …

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Llobet & Pons look at the history and development of the Busan Biennale in South Korea and reflect on how it can find a balance between the local and the …

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In this article, the final of a two-part series, Kiwon Hong traces the development of cultural policy in South Korea from the 1990s onwards, when focus moved from regulation to …

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South Korea is among the first Asian countries whose cultural policy profile has been commissioned for the global cultural research platform, WorldCP-International Database of Cultural Policies (worldcp.org).

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Part One of an in-depth look at the 16th BIFF (Busan International Film Festival).

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In this second of this two-part interview with culture360.org, Jong‐Ho Lee, Founding Artistic Director, SIDANCE Festival (Seoul International Dance Festival) talks about the importance of festivals in Asia.

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A report on a meeting in Kobe, Japan, in April 2011, to share case studies of dance festivals in Asia and to build a network among festival directors.

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Culture360.org Europe Editor Judith Staines looks at a unique cultural exchange programme currently building connections between professional dance specialists in Finland and Korea.

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culture360.org contributor, Bharti Lalwani, interviews Jeon Seung-chang, Chief Curator of the Leeum Museum at the Samsung Museum of Art in Korea.

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Judith Staines, Culture360.org’s Europe Editor, met Spanish artists Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons during their residency at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon in Korea and asked them about their nomadic …

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Since the first Gwangju Biennale in 1995, Asia has seen a significant development of contemporary Asian art on the international circuit with more and more Biennales organised in the region.

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At the moment where Paris Cinema 2008 closed its programme – with the largest ever showcase of Philippines recent film productions –, the French capital welcomed the first film-symposium of …

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The Hub City of Asian Culture Project, Gwangju has been put forward at the national level since 2004. Gwangju is an important city in Korea, known for its cultural heritage.

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IETM is a network committed to contemporary performing arts and to collaborating across national borders. It has 440 member-organisations from over 45 countries.

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