The Korean Traditonal Performing Arts Foundation(KoTPA) has committed to expanding traditional arts, developing high-quality traditional cultural content, promoting traditional arts, and nurturing young talent.
The Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation (KoTPA), founded to promote traditional performing arts and offer opportunities to appreciate the arts, received the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’spermission for establishment in 2007 and began as the Gugak Cultural Foundation.
The foundation was renamed the Korean Traditional Performing Arts Foundation in 2009, and it carries out a wide variety of projects to revitalize traditional performing arts. Currently, the organization is striving to boost the demand for traditional performing arts, expand its base, foster talents who will be able to lead the way in the future, and build the groundwork for market creation.
Promotion of traditional performing arts and expansion of opportunities for people to appreciate the arts
Central Base for Promotion of Traditional Performing Arts
Concentrate the institution's capabilities on Gugak Day and Gugak Week events | Expanding the discovery and reorganization of projects for the early settlement of the Gugak Cultural Industry |
Operation of Base Facilities | Fostering Future Talent | Support for Artistic Activities | Performances and Festivals | Discovering Potential Demand | Strengthen Publicity and Marketing | Establishment of the Gugak Cultural Industry |
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Arts Creation Studio Maru | Support Program for Emerging Traditional Performing Artists | Content Production Support | Korean Traditional Performing Arts on Unexpected Stages | Support for Traditional Arts Programs for Senior Care Facilities | Promotion of Gugak Revitalization of the Gugak Cultural Industry | Survey on Overseas Activities of Traditional Performing Arts |
Traditional Arts Promoter Training Project | Support for Regular Performances by Mid-Career Traditional Performing Artists | Korean Traditional Performance Festival | Traditional Culture Academy | Promotion and Marketing of Traditional Performing Arts | (Pilot)Regular Traditional Performances | |
Experimental Stage for Up-and-Coming Gugak Artists | Promotion of Regional Traditional Performing Arts | External Cooperation Projects | Expansion of Guidance on External Performances | (Pilot)Entry into the MICE Market | ||
Korean Folk Art Festival | Strengthen Promotion of Institutions | Derivation of a System for Training Experts in the Gugak Cultural Industry |