The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) on Sept. 6 opened a training center in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to develop content development personnel. Shown is a scene from this year’s K-Content Expo from Aug. 5-8 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (KOCCA)
By Gil Kyuyoung
Korea has opened a human resource center in Jakarta, Indonesia, to systematically support the development of the Southeast Asian country’s content industry.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Korea Creative Content Agency on Sept. 6 opened the so-called Content Professional Training Center in the Indonesian capital.
The center is part of an official development assistance project to train personnel for the Indonesian content industry. This is the first time for the scope of such aid to be expanded from culture to content.
The ministry, in cooperation with the Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology, will set up more such centers by 2027 in six Indonesian regions with the latest digital content equipment. Each facility will offer education in animation, documentaries, mobile content, and digital content for culture and arts education.
As the first of the six to open, the Jakarta center this year will teach 150 students animation content planning and production.
The project is expected to be a core achievement of global exchange of Korean content, a task under a national project to spread Korean content worldwide. Seoul plans to boost cooperation with Jakarta to lay the cornerstone for expanding the influence of Hallyu (Korean Wave) content throughout Southeast Asia.
Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Bo-keun said, “We hope that the opening of this human resource center will spread the cultural influence of Korean content locally and raise the Indonesian content industry to the next level through bilateral cooperation.”
gilkyuyoung@korea.kr
