Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Daehakro Center Counseling Center

The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture (CEO Lee Chang-gi) announced that the newly established 'Youth Art Support' and 'Elderly Art Support' projects are receiving favorable responses from artists, recording a competition rate of 13:1 and 4:1, respectively.< /span>

The Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture launched a contest for a total of 800 million won in support for young artists under the age of 39 and senior artists over the age of 60 in October and December, respectively. This is an effort to narrow the blind spot of support that was not covered by the existing support for artistic creative activities, and was newly established to prepare a 'web art support system' for the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture's art support project, which advanced the application period compared to previous years.

The youth arts support was designed to help young artists enter the art world, and as a result of receiving applications from October 4th to the 28th, it closed with a competition rate of about 13:1.

Youth Arts Support is a project that supports art majors who have just graduated to make their debut by presenting their first work. Even art majors face many difficulties in establishing their own identity, establishing a working method, and setting the scope of their activities in the process of starting creative activities as artists after graduation. Accordingly, Youth Art Support supports the first artistic activity in various ways through indirect support such as expert mentoring, workshops, and mutual networking, along with a maximum of 10 million won in creative support.

Other foundation support projects As in, you can use the Seoul Culture and Arts Support System to conveniently process report results and settlement. Through PC and mobile apps, it is possible to process settlement in real time only by automatically generating expenditure items during the business period and attaching relevant supporting documents. As a result of receiving applications from the 22nd to the 22nd, the competition rate was 4:1. Considering the age of the applicant, an offline consultation window was operated at the Daehakro Center of the foundation, and about 200 artists visited the site. Although artists account for about 30% of all artists (220,000), as of 2022, the proportion of those over the age of 60 among the number of applicants selected for artistic creative activity support by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture was less than 10%. Senior artists who visited the Daehakro Counseling Center during the application period responded that they would recover their self-esteem as artists, along with the expectation that they would resume their forgotten activities as artists.

Elder Arts The support supports free activities based on individual plans from the preparation process to presentation to artists planning creative activities in Seoul in 2023. Each individual is supported with a fixed amount of 3 million won, and senior artists must submit individual activity reports after the end of their activities. Elderly art support is supported in the form of prize money with a small amount of support, and there is no obligation to make a separate settlement. “We will make 2023 the first year of Seoul, a good place for artistic activities, and prepare a more thorough support system so that there are no places left in the art world other than selected artists.” said.