The Current Status and Development Direction of Local Cultural Policies

Our country is obviously concentrated on capital area even in the cultural field as well as in the political and economic fields. Accordingly, a new frame of national development came to be arranged by setting up the decentralized and balanced regional development through the execution of a local self-governing system in the mid 1990s. But in a situation of a wide gap between the central and local developments, there is a need to completely re-evaluate the unique cultural attributes that each province or region has, to recognize its value, and to establish the direction on regional culture & development and the direction on local cultural policy. There are also many cases with a waste of finance and time due to the occurrence of many trials and errors in implementing local cultural policies. To improve the quality of life in local residents and to satisfy the cultural needs by developing regional culture, there is a need to create efficient policies for promoting local culture, to grasp the present condition of local culture facing a change in policy environment and social environment related to regional culture, and to seek a counterplan for a problem.