제 28 호 Establishment of Arts Management Asia Center
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Establishment of Arts Management Asia Center
By Ye-Dam Hwang, Reporter
Did you hear about the Sangmyung University’s launch of the Arts Management Asia Center at the Seoul campus? From October 30th to November first, Sangmyung University hosted the third annual forum of International Alliance of Arts Management with the Seoul Metropolitan Council, IAAM(International Alliance of Arts Management), and Yeoyeon Culture Foundation at the Hotel Koreana in Seoul. At this forum, Sangmyung University established the Arts Management Asia Center going through the official confirmation procedure of International Alliance of Arts Management. Sangmyung University will become a base for the international exchange through Asian arts management research and education by establishing the Arts Management Asia Center on the Seoul campus, which will open a new horizon for Asian arts management.
In this annual forum of International Alliance of Arts Management, the participants shared solutions and cooperation cases on the establishment of public theater governance, creative ecosystem reorganization, festival and audience development by strengthening cooperation among international arts management researchers while discussing establishment of an international indicator system related to cultural influence and cultural and artistic content, standardization of data, comparing studies between countries, and ways to link academic and policy. In particular, the Seoul Metropolitan Council awarded the Sangmyung University a commendation for its contribution to the development of culture and arts, and for hosting the third annual forum of International Alliance of Arts Management in Korea with the Seoul Metropolitan Council and the Yeoyeon Culture Foundation.
The Arts Management Asia Center, which is established at the Sangmyung University, will integrate arts management research and education exchanges in Asia with the aim of sustainable development of the Asian cultural industry and establishing global governance, and promote data-based policy design and industrial strategies by quantifying the achievements of the culture and arts content industry to establish a Korean-style cultural indicator system as an Asian arts management hub. “The Arts Management Asia Center will be a practical platform of arts management field for international cooperation research, co-production, and academic network construction so that Korea can play a central role in arts management, and will shape the Korean-style cultural indicator system based on the global cultural impact index,” said Lee Dong-soo, a professor at Sangmyung University who was elected as the first chairman of the Arts Management Asia Center.
The Sangmyung University President Kim Chong-hee attended the forum and said, “Sangmyung University has been striving to present a vision of future art management in which academics, industries, and communities are harmoniously connected, centering on the Department of Global Cultural Contents and the Department of Culture and Arts Management. We hope that the Arts Management Asia Center established at Sangmyung University will become a hub for Asian art management exchanges and a center of cooperation linking academics and industries, and linking regions and the world.” “I hope that, through this forum, the cultural infrastructure and local creative ecosystems will be connected, and the expandability and publicity of art management will be reinforced through civic participatory governance and data-based policy design,” a Seoul Metropolitan Council official said. "We hope that the Arts Management Asia Center will be established at the Sangmyung University's Seoul Campus to serve as a bridgehead for Seoul to grow into a hub for Asian art management and a cradle for international cultural cooperation."
It is of great significance to establish the Arts Management Asia Center at Sangmyung University's Seoul Campus, which will pioneer new possibilities for Asian arts management. This Arts Management Asia Center plans to create a Korea as the center of Asian art management and Korean-style cultural indicator system with the aim of sustainable development of the Asian cultural industry and establishing global governance. In addition, in the future, this center is expected to serve as a base for international exchange related to art management and become an advantageous foothold for growing into the birthplace of international cultural cooperation. Therefore, I hope you to check the meaning of this Arts Management Asia Center and pay attention to its activities.
Sources:
https://www.smu.ac.kr/fund/vision/schoolnews.do?mode=view&articleNo=760579
https://www.joongang.co.kr/article/25378582
https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/society/educationnews/2025/11/03/20251103500092?wlog_tag3=naver
