Hub City of Asian Culture, Gwangju
The Hub City of Asian Culture Project, Gwangju has been putting forward as a scheme at the national policy level since March, 2004 when Presidential Committee for Culture Cities and Executive Agency for the Hub City of Asian Culture under Ministry of Culture ...

What is IETM and why have we been focusing on Asia? 

IETM is a network committed to contemporary performing arts and to collaborating across national borders. Our 440 member-organisations from over 45 countries. include festivals; theatres and arts centres; theatre, dance, music-theatre and interdisciplinary companies; programmers, producers; service organisations and ...

The Impressive Rise of Korean Cinema

Without a doubt, South Korea has played host to one of the most interesting film industries of the past ten years. While gradual change has been the norm for most other countries, Korea's film sector has been re-built, transformed, and turned on its head. ...

Four art operators reflect

What is 'contemporary' in performing arts today? What at first seems to be a very simple question actually has no straight or univocal answer at all. Can 'contemporary' be placed in opposition to 'traditional' or are these two abstract terms in a continuous relationship, in ...