Culture, Welfare, and Education Committee Seeks Regional Cultural and Artistic Promotion Plans

The Culture, Welfare, and Education Committee of the Suwon City Council (Committee Chair Baek Jung-seon) announced on the 3rd that it has launched a research project to develop plans for promoting regional culture and the arts.

The research project kickoff report held at the Suwon City Council seminar room was attended by Representative Member Jeon Ae-ri, the research team's leading representative, eight committee members of the Culture, Welfare, and Education Committee, Suwon City's Culture and Tourism Division Chief Oh Sung-seok, and Lee Kyung-mo, head of the Cultural Business Division at the Suwon Cultural Foundation. The session included an explanation of the research direction by Song Kyung-hee, a researcher at Sangmyung University's Arts Management Research Institute, followed by a question-and-answer period to ensure efficient implementation of the research project.

In preparation for the enactment of the Regional Culture Promotion Act, this research project is set to develop regional cultural and arts policies suited to Suwon City's regional characteristics and unique identity, and to present the role and development direction of the Suwon Cultural Foundation.

According to city council officials, the research project will analyze Suwon City's cultural environment and policies and collect data on the conditions of the Suwon Cultural Foundation and major domestic and international cases. Based on the research results in five months, the plan is to review the enactment of related ordinances.

Representative Member Jeon Ae-ri stated, "In recent years, local governments have been establishing cultural foundations in a boom, but there are still shortcomings in developing regional culture. It is a critical time for the enactment of the Regional Culture Promotion Act as an institutional mechanism to comprehensively address the diverse regional cultural tasks of cultural decentralization and dispersion from the central government to local governments, local government cultural innovation, and strengthening the cultural capacity of local residents."

Member Jeon further stated, "Through this research project, I hope that cultural and arts policy plans reflecting Suwon City's unique characteristics can be prepared."