Reduce culture & leisure cost burden for households with tight budgets

• Reducing culture & leisure costs for people
  • ‘Youth Culture and Arts Pass’ created for citizens aged 19 or lower (160,000 people )
  • Worker vacation support (150,000 people), accommodation coupon (KRW 450,000), Month of Travel (twice a year)
  • Expanding certified facilities to provide an incentive to exercise
• Three kinds of tickets and vouchers for leisure spending for socially disadvantaged groups
  • Integrated culture tickets (KRW 130,000 a year)
  • Sports lecture tickets (children and youths: KRW 100,000, persons with disabilities: KRW 110,000 a month)
  • Customized travel support for people with limited travel opportunities
• Support for creators and small-scale businesses
  • Low-interest rate loans for artists
  • Broadening the scope for waiving copyright registration fees
  • Strengthening financial assistance for tourism and sports companies

Content, tourism, and sports industries promote a dynamic economy.

• K-content, a leader in the global market
  • Cultivating game, video, cartoon, and webtoon content
  • Providing financial support worth KRW 1.74 trillion
  • Supporting penetration of overseas content market through overseas business centers (25 locations)
• Twenty million foreign visitor project
  • Culture & tourism convergence festivals
  • Bike and walking travel across the nation
  • Increasing convenience for foreign tourists, ‘2024 Visit Korea Year’ K-tourism Roadshow (25 cities)
• Growing the sports industry by promoting citizens’ daily sports activities
  • Fostering sports club environment in villages
  • Supporting sports activities through lifecycle (children, youth, elderly)
  • Nurturing sports talents and professional athletes

Laying a framework for the new global culture strategy of K-culture

• Arts, the driving force of new K-culture
  • Supporting the overseas introduction of K-art performances, fine arts, handicrafts, and literature
  • Collecting repertoires of outstanding artworks, and multi-year support by phase
  • Expanding indirect support for creative space, promotion, and marketing activities
• K-culture project for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
  • Breakdance performance (May), national arts organization performances (June through September)
  • Korean artworks exhibition (July), Korean handicrafts showcase (September)
  • Hallyu fair (September), culture and tourism promotion using Korea House
• Strengthening strategic cultural exchange and cooperation
  • Reorganizing cultural exchange support departments
  • Conducting “Year of Cultural Exchanges” with Canada and Italy
  • Bolstering Korean cultural centers overseas, including the New York Korea Center

Addressing social issues, such as regional extinction and isolation through culture

• Building regional and local culture resilience
  • Korean cultural city, Local 100
  • Supporting performances and exhibitions in regions and holding traveling exhibitions of the National Museum of Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Promoting regional arts organizations
• Special culture and tourism assistance to areas where the population is declining
  • Holding on-site culture, arts, and sports events
  • Creating small-scale tourism complexes
  • Providing preferential support for tourism businesses, expanding areas eligible for the digital tourism residence card
• Humanities culture to solve social issues
  • Easing sense of isolation and loneliness by providing cultural service to culturally disadvantaged groups
  • Increasing resilience through humanities promotion
  • Conducting ‘Respect for Life’ culture campaign together with religious organizations

Preparing for a new future based on fairness and innovation along with youths

• Preemptive response to AI and digital technology
  • Improving systems related to generative AI
  • AI-based content and technology
  • Arts and technology convergence through Arts Korea Lab
• Increasing opportunities for youths to initiate or participate in cultural activities
  • Increasing youth interns and youth members of national arts organizations
  • Expanding opportunities for youths to participate in policy
• Fostering youth participation in policy-making
  • Introducing responsible reviewers in cultural arts content projects
  • Guaranteeing activities of artists and athletes with disabilities
  • Cultivating a fair environment for culture, sports, and tourism