Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Shares K-Content Copyright Know-How with 10 Overseas Countries

Training Workshop Inviting WIPO and Copyright Officials from 10 Countries
Sharing Copyright Utilization Cases and Strengthening Global Cooperation and Solidarity

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will share cases of Korean content copyright utilization with 10 countries overseas and strengthen global cooperation and solidarity.

Minister Park Bo-gyun of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, met on February 9th at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul to discuss expanding cooperation for IP (intellectual property) growth.
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On the 30th, the Ministry announced that it will hold a training session for copyright officials and a high-level meeting with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Korea Copyright Commission until June 2.

The meeting will be attended by 10 countries including Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and Samoa. The training session for copyright officials, which started in 2007 and is now in its 15th year, is a representative cooperation project conducted by the Ministry using a trust fund contributed to WIPO.

The training will be held from May 30 to June 1 at the Seoul office of the Korea Copyright Commission, with Gao Hang, Director of the Copyright Development Department at WIPO, and 27 copyright officials from the public and private cultural industries of the 10 overseas countries participating.

This training will share cases of fostering Korean creative industries such as performing arts, film, and music through effective copyright utilization support by cultural promotion institutions. To this end, content experts from the Arts Management Support Center, Busan International Film Festival Asia Contents & Film Market, Korea Music Copyright Association, and Kakao Entertainment will serve as speakers.

From June 1 to 2, a high-level meeting will be held at Lotte Hotel Seoul with 29 senior copyright officials from the 10 overseas countries participating.

Under the theme of "Promotion measures for copyright utilization by startups and small and medium-sized enterprises," representatives of Korean startup companies such as SoundUX and Rockin Korea will introduce success stories and experiences. The meeting will also discuss the new roles of copyright authorities and mutual cooperation measures in response to changes in the copyright environment after COVID-19.

Im Seong-hwan, Director of the Copyright Bureau at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, "We expect this to greatly contribute to the creation and expansion of the content creative industry ecosystem by strengthening international cooperation and solidarity based on copyright."