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Cultural Content Industry Office
  • Culture Industry Policy Division

    • Tel : (82+2)3704 - 9610 ~ 23; Fax : (82+2)3704 - 9629 Contact us
    •  Establish and coordinate master plan for promotion of cultural industry
    •  Investigate and examine ways to promote cultural industry
    •  Set up and operate financial resources for promotion of cultural industry
    •  Operate Korea Cultural Industry Promotion Committee
    •  Expand and improve infrastructure of culture industry system
    •  Manage cooperation with relevant ministries and local governments in culture industry
    •  Foster and promote local culture industry
    •  Promote information-oriented culture industry
    •  Supervise Korea Culture & Content Agency
    •  Support inter-Korean exchange in culture industry
    •  Train professionals in culture industry
    •  Create job opportunities in culture industry
    •  Improve financing and tax incentives to promote investment in cultural industry
    •  Manage overseas expansion and international exchange in culture industry
    •  Handle other related business
  • Image Content Industry Division

    • Tel : (82+2)3704 - 9680; Fax : (82+2)3704 - 9689 Contact us
    •  Establish and execute master plan for promotion of film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment industries
    •  Investigate, examine and develop policies to promote film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment industries
    •  Train professionals in film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment industries
    •  Support creation and production organizations in film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment industry
    •  Support production, distribution and screening contents of film, video and animation industries
    •  Improve distribution structure and promote digitalization and investment in film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment industries
    •  Support sales promotion of content in film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment
    •  Manage overseas expansion and inter-Korean/international exchange in film, video, animation, music, popular culture/art, fashion and entertainment industries
    •  Manage registration and notification of film/video-related business, singing room business, recording and music video production and distribution, and online music service providers
    •  Manage movie screening facilities
    •  Foster healthy ancillary market for film, video and online digital film
    •  Supervise Korean Film Council, Korea Media Rating Board, and Korean Film Archive
    •  Operate film development funds
  • Game Content Industry Division

    • Tel : (82+2)3704 - 9360; Fax : (82+2)3704 - 9379 Contact us
    •  Establish and execute master plan for promotion of game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Investigate and examine ways to promote game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Train professionals in game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Support creative production organizations in game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Improve distribution structure and promote digitalization and investment in game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Support sales promotion of contents in game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Manage overseas expansion and inter-Korean/international exchange in game, character and cartoon industries
    •  Manage registration and notification of Internet game facility businesses and game businesses
    •  Foster healthy game industry market
    •  Establish sound system for rating, distribution and use of game contents
    •  Protect interests of game users, and mediate disputes regarding game content
    •  Improve support activities to promote e-sports
    •  Educate users about sound game usage and develop plans to deal with negative side effects, such as game addiction
    •  Develop and standardize game technology
    •  Supervise Korea Game Development & Promotion Institute and Game Rating Board
  • Digital Content Industry Division

    • Tel : (82+2)3704 - 9311 ~ 6; Fax : (82+2)3704 - 9319 Contact us
    •  Develop and promote content technology
    •  Transfer content technology into industrial applications
    •  Establish and execute master plan for promotion of multimedia content and digital cultural content
    •  Develop and distribute advanced interactive media programs
    •  Develop and promote advanced cultural content
    •  Design and standardize content
    •  Develop and distribute new products based on Korean culture, and improve application of public cultural content
    •  Support research and development projects in local content industry
    •  Develop policies to increase application of multimedia through information and communication services
    •  Promote and support information, multimedia content and Internet industries
    •  Promote and support database industry
    •  Promote online digital content industry
    •  Develop, establish and execute policies to develop online digital content industry
    •  Promote development and standardization of online digital content technology
    •  Create infrastructure for online digital content industry
    •  Establish transaction and quality certification policies to promote distribution of online digital content
    •  Promote international cooperation and overseas expansion of online digital content
    •  Protect users of online digital content
    •  Establish and execute master and implementation plans to develop online digital content industry
    •  Enact and amend statutes related to online digital content
    •  Examine and recognize best digital content through award system
    •  Promote edutainment and mobile content industry
    •  Facilitate common service of digital content
    •  Establish, support and promote specialized university and graduate schools for content technology
    •  Manage and coordinate departmental R&D business and implement evaluation management system
    •  Establish order in distribution of online-based content
    •  Examine and support creative cultural activities in new media art genre
    •  Develop and promote future strategic technology in culture industry
  • Copyright Policy Division

    • Tel : (82+2)3704 - 9470 ~ 8; Fax : (82+2)3704 - 9479 Contact us
    •  Establish, coordinate and promote master plan for copyright (software copyright included. Hereafter same) policy
    •  Establish and execute master plan for creation, protection and application of intellectual properties
    •  Investigate, examine and analyze trends in intellectual property rights, including copyright
    •  Establish guidelines for publication, distribution and adaptation of copyrighted works
    •  Establish and execute master plan to educate about copyright, and train professionals in copyright
    •  Establish and execute policy to promote and increase recognition of copyright
    •  Supervise copyright-related corporations and organizations
    •  Cooperate with international copyright organizations, such as WIPO
    •  Investigate and examine international copyright treaty and convention
    •  Protect foreign copyright
    •  Manage inter-Korean copyright cooperation and exchange
    •  Supervise Copyright Commission and Korea Software Copyright Protection Committee
    •  Establish, manage and coordinate trade policy for culture, sports and tourism
    •  Be involved in bilateral trade of culture, sports and tourism sector in FTA
    •  Be involved in multilateral trade of culture, sports and tourism sector in WTO, OECD and APEC
    •  Establish follow-up measures in culture, sports and tourism sector to conclusion of international foreign trade treaties and conventions
    •  Collect information and data on national/international trade environment and policy in culture, sports and tourism sector
    •  Cooperate with international trade organizations, foreign governments and agencies in culture industry
  • Copyright Industry Indivision

    • Tel : (82+2)3704-9480~9; Fax : (82+2)3704-9479 Contact us
    •  Establish and execute master plan for promotion of copyright industry
    •  Improve distribution structure of copyright
    •  Control use of public domain works
    •  Manage registration and legal approval of copyright
    •  Recognize copyright ownership, and notify copyright royalties
    •  Manage registration and notification of copyright collective management organizations
    •  Establish order in fair trade of copyright, and create sound environment in use of copyrighted goods
    •  Manage copyright information, and standardize technical protection measures
    •  Promote trade in copyrighted works, and establish identification system
    •  Manage authorization and donation for use of copyrighted works
    •  Supervise Copyright Information Center
    •  Promote use of copyright
    •  Develop online digital content identification technology
  • Copyright Protection Division

    • Tel : (82+2)3704-9468 Contact us
    •  Establish and execute master plan for copyright protection
    •  Control copyright (software copyright included) infringement
    •  Exercise special judicial police power in copyright
    •  Investigate and examine actual status of copyright (software copyright included) infringement
    •  Notify special type online service providers, and impose fines
    •  Collect and dispose illegally used copyrighted works (illegally used copyrighted software included)
    •  Instruct deletion and disconnect illegally used copyrighted works, and impose fines
    •  Issue corrective order for illegally duplicated software, and impose fines
    •  Support development of copyright protection and illegal duplication prevention technologies
    •  Create sound environment for proper use of copyright (software copyright included) materials
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