發佈日期：2014年5月27日
The so-called "creative economy" has been touted as the next growth model that is going to transform Korea over the coming years and decades.
With this in mind, our Park Ji-won reports on the government's plans to nurture the next generation of creative thinkers.
Twenty-six-year old Lee June-min and his classmates have developed a program for a simple, manual game.
"We wanted to create a game that requires interactive body movements,... like when we played with shadows as children."
And university student Shin Jae-won has been involved in a storytelling business project.
"We realized the storytelling industry's immense possible influence on the creative economy, as it can provide an endless amount of new items."
They are some of Korea's young pioneers with creative minds -- the fuel that runs the country's creative economy.
According to a definition by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, at the heart of any creative economy is the contents industry, which spans diverse sectors like film, music and gaming.
But these sectors are not new to Korea, which has the world's seventh biggest media-entertainment industry, raking in some 45 billion U.S. dollars in 2012.
The nation's contents industry, in total, logged an annual revenue of nearly 90 billion dollars last year, up more than four percent on-year.
Zeroing in on its great potential for growth, the government aims to increase its annual revenue further, to nearly 120 billlion dollars by 2017.
As one of many efforts to stimulate the nation's creativity, the first Content Korea Lab, a free, public center equipped with diverse facilities like recording studios and video editing rooms, opened in Seoul.
"Content Korea Lab is where anyone with creative ideas can gather and fuse their mind with other to initiate new projects."
The culture ministry plans to open 10 more centers nationwide by 2017, to act as hubs for inspiring and cultivating even greater creativity for the future.
Park Ji-won, Arirang news.
With this in mind, our Park Ji-won reports on the government's plans to nurture the next generation of creative thinkers.
Twenty-six-year old Lee June-min and his classmates have developed a program for a simple, manual game.
"We wanted to create a game that requires interactive body movements,... like when we played with shadows as children."
And university student Shin Jae-won has been involved in a storytelling business project.
"We realized the storytelling industry's immense possible influence on the creative economy, as it can provide an endless amount of new items."
They are some of Korea's young pioneers with creative minds -- the fuel that runs the country's creative economy.
According to a definition by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, at the heart of any creative economy is the contents industry, which spans diverse sectors like film, music and gaming.
But these sectors are not new to Korea, which has the world's seventh biggest media-entertainment industry, raking in some 45 billion U.S. dollars in 2012.
The nation's contents industry, in total, logged an annual revenue of nearly 90 billion dollars last year, up more than four percent on-year.
Zeroing in on its great potential for growth, the government aims to increase its annual revenue further, to nearly 120 billlion dollars by 2017.
As one of many efforts to stimulate the nation's creativity, the first Content Korea Lab, a free, public center equipped with diverse facilities like recording studios and video editing rooms, opened in Seoul.
"Content Korea Lab is where anyone with creative ideas can gather and fuse their mind with other to initiate new projects."
The culture ministry plans to open 10 more centers nationwide by 2017, to act as hubs for inspiring and cultivating even greater creativity for the future.
Park Ji-won, Arirang news.
No comments:
Post a Comment