The K-ARTS Runs an Overseas Cultural Partnership Project

The AMFEK Cultural Partnership Project by the K-Arts is a residential program that invites professors and experts in arts from ODA recipient countries in Asia, Latin America, East Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It supports their research projects, workshops, or creative activities for three to five months during their staying in Korea.

This year, four professionals from four different countries – Mongolia, Turkey, Thailand, and Mexico - joined the project. 

Professor Oyun-Erdene Togokh of Huree, a lecturer at the Multimedia Department of the University of Information and Communication, plans on developing a Mongolian Cyrillic font based on his study on the development of Korean font design. Professor Simten Demirkol Toygu, the head of the department of performing arts at Anadolu University in Turkey, researches the Korean popular culture based on the analysis of the general Korean culture and Korean idol culture. Pattarasuda Anuman Rajadhon from Thailand is a lecturer who teaches theatrical studies at Chulalongkorn University and Silpakorn University. For this project, she focuses on theoretically structuring a monodrama and developing one in response to the emergence of New Normal after the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic. Ms. Ana Jimenez, a public relations official in the Cancun government in Mexico, studies how to revitalize the local government’s cultural policies using performing arts.