This report has been prepared in order to review South Korea's current creative economy policy and analyze its status. An economy that has set as its goal the support of the values of innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship at the level of its own society and the world.
This transformation requires the commitment of government and the private sector so that it can lay the groundwork for a change toward a new economy and social model in which creativity and innovation are at the center of development. South Korea has had a successful record in investing in talent and its people. At present, Korea is investing in the capacity of young people so that they can become successful entrepreneurs.
This report has 5 sections:
1- A general introduction to the country's economic growth and why it is moving toward a new economic model and the creation of new jobs
2- An introduction to strategies for promoting the creative economy that employ knowledge, information, and communications
3- A statement of government strategies that pay special attention to promoting small and medium-sized enterprises and startups; especially those that are in the field of creative content
4- A description of Creative Economy Valley, which is a government-led strategy that supports the convergence of knowledge and technology and the integration of culture, industry, creativity, and entrepreneurship
5- And the fifth part is the conclusions and recommendations section for future programs
The topics we read about in more detail in these five sections:
- The institutional framework of the creative economy
- Policies in the field of the creative economy
- Professional-sector organizations
- Creative economy promotion agencies
- Intellectual property rights
- Entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises
- Trade in the creative industries
- The video game industry
- Hallyu (this term refers to K-pop, Korean TV series and films, or the Korean Wave)
- Creative Economy Town
- Creative Economy Conference
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian