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The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation was established in March 1973 in accordance with the Culture and Arts Promotion Act. The Declaration of the Development of Culture and Art, made later that year, virtually stated the purpose of the Foundations establishment when it said that the power that determines a peoples national identity is their cultural creativity.
The Foundations ultimate goals are to raise the quality of cultural life for all Koreans and to provide a vision of a more promising future for Korea. Hence, many of the Foundations programs aim to cultivate the artistic creativity of artists and to promote an appreciation of the arts among the public. Through these means, it tries to provide a better milieu within which Koreans can enjoy the cultural excellence of a new age. Ultimately, it hopes to take the leading role in creating the future of Koreans information age by establishing an arts network and becoming a center for the globalization of the arts.
Among the affiliated facilities that the Foundation also operates are the Marronnier Art Center, a modern exhibition hall, Arts Theater, a performing arts center, the Arts Training Center, which conducts various education programs in order to cultivate arts administrators and personnel working in the field of theatrical arts, and finally the Arts Library, a comprehensive reference center that houses various multimedia materials.
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