Government Announces 16.5 Billion KRW Cultural, Sports, and Tourism R&D Competition

"Support Project Standards and Forms to Be Standardized, Leading to Excellent Cases"

On the 17th, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency announced the recruitment of institutions for research and development (R&D) in content, copyright, tourism, and sports. The total support budget is 16.5 billion KRW, of which 9.5 billion KRW will be allocated to new calls this year. The funding includes ▲Development of core technologies for global virtual performances (500 million KRW) ▲R&D for innovative growth in tourism services (3 billion KRW) ▲Training and strengthening competitiveness of software copyright technology talent ▲Development of core copyright technologies for next-generation immersive content (a total of 6 billion KRW). The remaining funds will be distributed to multi-year R&D institutions that pass the open call. The project is divided into training specialized personnel for cultural content R&D and advanced CT demonstration linked to local regions. The former consists of three art-science convergence projects and one advanced technology R&D talent training project in the gaming sector, with 700 million KRW and 2.2 billion KRW supported respectively over two phases. The latter is a free-topic project aimed at revitalizing public cultural spaces and content in regions excluding the metropolitan area, with 2.55 billion KRW invested per project. An official stated, "This is the first integrated call organized by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Technology Promotion Center, launched last November," adding, "With the unification of various R&D projects, the standards and formats for related support programs will be standardized, and diverse excellent cases are expected to emerge." For more details, refer to the project briefing session held on the 28th on the KOCCA YouTube channel.

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