"Cultural Spaces in Industrial Complexes"... Government's 'Culture in Industrial Complexes' TF Holds First Meeting

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport held the first meeting on the 15th at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, launching a special task force (TF) for the 'Creation of Industrial Complexes with Culture.'

This follows President Yoon Suk-yeol's directive at the 14th Public Discussion held last month in Changwon, Gyeongnam, instructing related ministries to "create industrial complexes rich in culture where young people want to live and work." On the 6th, the government met with local governments responsible for industrial complexes such as Ulsan and Changwon City, as well as experts in the cultural and arts fields to gather on-site opinions and began forming the special task force among related ministries.

The special task force is jointly led by the Director-General of Industrial Infrastructure at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Director-General of Cultural Arts Policy at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Director-General of Land and Urban Affairs at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Representatives from each ministry, the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation, the Regional Culture Promotion Agency, Korea Land and Housing Corporation, and other related organizations also participate.

The task force will address inter-ministerial project linkage plans, such as integrating cultural and arts programs from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism into the infrastructure established by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in industrial complexes. Additionally, from the planning stage of new national industrial complexes, related ministries and local governments will cooperate to create cultural facilities, and discuss cultural and arts support measures to improve residential conditions for industrial complexes and local residents.

Institutional improvement plans will also be discussed to enable cultural enterprises to settle within industrial complexes. Oh Seung-cheol, Director-General of Industrial Infrastructure at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, stated, "The past industrial complex policies focused solely on factories have now reached their limits. To create industrial complexes that young people and companies want to return to, related ministries will become one team and strengthen efforts to fuse industrial complexes with culture."

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