Culture and the state: from a Korean perspective

TY - CHAP

T1 - Culture and the state

T2 - from a Korean perspective

AU - Lee, Hye-Kyung

PY - 2014/8

Y1 - 2014/8

N2 - This chapter examines Korean cultural and arts policy by focusing on the policy’s historical and political embeddedness. It argues that the Korean state’s developmental approach to arts, the lack of social legitimacy of the arts and the arts sector’s internal conditions have been key determinants of the Korean style of arts policy where the state functions as a main resource provider and a coordinator of different interests in the arts sector. Pointing out the problematic and contentious coupling between the state and the arts, where arts are susceptible to party politics, the chapter calls for reflexivity on both the state and the arts sector and the latter’s strengthened capacity as a civil society.

AB - This chapter examines Korean cultural and arts policy by focusing on the policy’s historical and political embeddedness. It argues that the Korean state’s developmental approach to arts, the lack of social legitimacy of the arts and the arts sector’s internal conditions have been key determinants of the Korean style of arts policy where the state functions as a main resource provider and a coordinator of different interests in the arts sector. Pointing out the problematic and contentious coupling between the state and the arts, where arts are susceptible to party politics, the chapter calls for reflexivity on both the state and the arts sector and the latter’s strengthened capacity as a civil society.

UR - http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137327765

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9781137327765

BT - Cultural policies in East Asia

A2 - Lee, Hye-Kyung

A2 - Lim, Lorraine

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Basingstoke, Hampshire

ER -