Making creative industries policy in the real world: differing configurations of the culture-market-state nexus in the UK and South Korea

TY - JOUR

T1 - Making creative industries policy in the real world

T2 - differing configurations of the culture-market-state nexus in the UK and South Korea

AU - Lee, Hye-Kyung

PY - 2020/6/6

Y1 - 2020/6/6

N2 - This paper compares creative (content) industries policies in the UK and South Korea, highlighting the coevality in their development. Seeing them as ‘industrial policies’, it focuses on how state intervention is justified and why a certain set of policy options have been chosen. The UK policy-makers prefer passive and decentralised roles of the state that addresses market failures via generic and horizontal policies. Meanwhile, Koreans have consistently believed in the strong, resourceful and ambitious state in developing centralised, sector-specific policies for cultural industries. While demonstrating two contrasting approaches to the nation state’s management of cultural turn in the economy, both cases seem to present a ‘paradox’. Despite its neoliberal undertone, the horizontal and fused approach taken by the UK’s creative industries policy engenders some space for ‘cultural’ policy. On the contrary, the non-liberal and state-driven content industries policy in Korea has shown a stronger tendency of cultural commodification.

AB - This paper compares creative (content) industries policies in the UK and South Korea, highlighting the coevality in their development. Seeing them as ‘industrial policies’, it focuses on how state intervention is justified and why a certain set of policy options have been chosen. The UK policy-makers prefer passive and decentralised roles of the state that addresses market failures via generic and horizontal policies. Meanwhile, Koreans have consistently believed in the strong, resourceful and ambitious state in developing centralised, sector-specific policies for cultural industries. While demonstrating two contrasting approaches to the nation state’s management of cultural turn in the economy, both cases seem to present a ‘paradox’. Despite its neoliberal undertone, the horizontal and fused approach taken by the UK’s creative industries policy engenders some space for ‘cultural’ policy. On the contrary, the non-liberal and state-driven content industries policy in Korea has shown a stronger tendency of cultural commodification.

KW - content industries

KW - creative economy

KW - creative industries

KW - cultural industries

KW - industrial policy

KW - Korean cultural policy

KW - UK cultural policy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062352759&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/10286632.2019.1577401

DO - 10.1080/10286632.2019.1577401

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85062352759

SN - 1028-6632

VL - 26

SP - 544

EP - 560

JO - International journal of cultural policy

JF - International journal of cultural policy

IS - 4

ER -