The Research Of Development Of South Korean Cultural Industry

This article confines the concept of culture to the field ofspiritual production dividing cultural field into two parts:working culture and public—good culture and defining the culturalindustry as the enterprises groups of producing and administrativecultural productions. Cultural industry is part of culture,therefore it has the dual property of ideology and industry, whichis the peculiar property it has comparing with other ordinarymaterial industry. In the market economy, those that can bemanipulated through the industrial way in culture must belong tothe working culture. This is determined by the characteristics ofthe cultural industry. The property of the working culturecompatible with that of market and industry, therefore, workingculture becomes industrialized. Whereas public—good culture iscompatible with that of the enterprises, so it can beindustrialized.After Asian economic crisis, South Korean economy developsrapidly among which, cultural industry is the most active, growsfastest, becoming the most stirring factor in pulling the economicdevelopment. The actuality and experience of the development ofSouth Korean cultural industry is: creating originally thecultural techniques and evading the way of imitation; possessingthe field of self—contained IT infrastructure, technicalpopularization and widely appliance; founding wholesomemanagement organization of the central governmental culturalindustry; local government developing and managing the culturalindustry cooperatively with the enterprises; collecting andmanaging the industrial information effectively and so on .Through this hard work, cultural industry has run neck and neckwith communicating industry and biological techniques industry inSouth Korea whereas the property of cultural industry that itproduces the high plus value has made it become the strategicmerchants for export in South Korea. The South Korean governmentdecides that by the year of 2007, it will increase the productionvalue of cultural industry to 5% in the world's one to make SouthKorea rank the five great power in cultural industry and furthermake South Korea the great power of culture, economy and knowledgein the 21st century finally.The success of South Korean cultural industry is notaccidental, but the result of the planning and advancing step bystep on the basis of the common cognition on its strategicsignificance. Korea regards developing the cultural industry asa national policy, carrying out a series of magnificentimplementations. This boosts the development of cultural industryforcefully. These implementations include the following ones:defining scientifically the category of cultural industry;establishing the strategy of cultural development and puttingforward the guideline of building the country according culture;enforcing the legislation and straightening out the managingmechanism of cultural organization; building the mechanism ofsupporting the capitals; constructing the mechanism of intensiveproduction and administration and the layout of cultural industry;building the mechanism of person with ability cultivation to trainthe professional person for cultural industry; exploiting theinternational market energetically.Our national cultural industry developed for only a short time,so it makes a limited contribution to the economic growth and lacksthe international competitive ability. After joining the WTO, ournational cultural industry has been struck by the occidentalcultural productions, cultural capitals and cultural value. It isproved by the Korean experience that cultural industry can be therising supporting industry in national economy and the governmentshoulder the responsibility in advancing the development ofcultural industry. Although the situations of China and SouthKorea are different, they have the same geology and similarcultural tradition. We should use for reference and study the pointthat South Korea emphasizes cultural constructing and the way ofboosting the economy through developing culture.First, establishing the scientific and logical strategy andlayout of our national cultural industry development, perfectingthe policy of our national cultural industry development anddeveloping it energetically.Second, deepening the reform and abolishing the systematicrestrictions that obstruct the cultural development. Besidesimproving the macroscopic management and activating themicrocosmic principal part, we must finish the complete systemreforms including finance, tax, business administration,investment, financing, collocation of the state capital, incomedistribution, personnel distribution, social insurance and so onin order to supply the policy assurance for the cultural mechanismreform.Third, adjusting the layout of the cultural industry strategyand optimizing the resource collocation. Exerting the regulativefunction of the market mechanism in terms of the relaxed bylaw asthe breaking point to make the government not only concentrate thefinance, manpower to manipulate the public—good culturalenterprises but also practicing the strategic adjustment of layoutof state cultural units and advancing the benign circulation ofproduction, circulation and consuming of the cultural production.Fourth, perfecting policy of cultural industry andstraightening out the managing mechanism of cultural industry.Constructing a scientific, perfect, unified and proper policysystem of cultural industry, breaking the restrictions among thevocations and regions, building a normative, systematic and opencultural market, straightening out the managing mechanism of thepropagandistic department of the party committee and the culturaladministrative department of the government.Fifth, innovating the legal system and protecting the smooth...