Ministry of Culture Shares Cultural Policy Directions at Brazil's 'G20 Culture Ministers' Meeting'

Yong Hoseong, 1st Vice Minister of Culture, Introduces Key Cultural Policy Directions
Korea-Brazil Cultural Cooperation MOU Signed

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on the 7th that Yong Hoseong, the First Vice Minister, will attend the G20 Culture Ministers' Meeting held in Salvador, Brazil on the 8th, to introduce South Korea's major cultural policy directions.

Yong Hoseong, the 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, is taking a commemorative photo with Margareth Menezes, Minister of Culture of Brazil, after signing a memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation between Korea and Brazil at the Salvador Convention Center in Brazil, where the G20 Culture Ministers' Meeting is being held on the 6th (local time).
[Photo by Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism]

At this meeting, cultural ministers and vice ministers from the G20 and invited countries, as well as representatives from major international organizations such as UNESCO and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), will participate to share policies and discuss cooperation measures on topics including △ cultural diversity and social inclusion △ copyright norms in digital environments such as artificial intelligence (AI) △ cultural creative industries and sustainable development.

The outcomes of these discussions are expected to be adopted as a joint declaration under the chairmanship of Brazil.

Vice Minister Yong will emphasize the power of culture for solidarity, dialogue, and cooperation in his remarks as the chief representative. He will share exemplary cases of South Korea's cultural policies aimed at making cultural content a core export product, including the largest-ever scale of content policy financing and support for cultural technology development.

He will then hold bilateral meetings with the Minister of Culture of Indonesia, the Minister of Culture of Brazil, the Deputy Minister of Culture of Spain, the Deputy Minister of Canadian Heritage, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, the UNESCO Ambassador of Singapore, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts of Australia, and the Assistant Director-General for Culture of UNESCO to discuss directions for strengthening cultural cooperation.

Earlier on the 6th, Vice Minister Yong signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cultural cooperation between South Korea and Brazil with Margaret Menezes, Minister of Culture of Brazil.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism explained that through this newly signed MOU, the first in 58 years since the cultural agreement concluded in 1966, the two countries have established a foundation for cultural cooperation by specifying concrete areas and scopes of collaboration such as cultural policy and creative economy, performing and visual arts, cultural heritage, and audiovisual industries.

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