KOREA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

As the only higher education institutions that nurtures experts in traditional culture and performs the function of carrying on traditional culture, NUCH provide support for the artistic production and development of cultural products of top-level human resources who study traditional culture and aims to realize the public policy of the “social utilization” of traditional culture by promoting the creativity and capacity build-up of the talents.

Through in-depth research and interdisciplinary connection of traditional culture and cultural heritage, this department contributes to academic advancement and takes full advantage of it for education. Moreover, we contribute to the inheritance and development of traditional culture and cultural promotion by applying it to the educational field. The research team consists of full-time faculty members, chair professors and invited researchers while research areas include discourse and basic theory of traditional culture, cultural heritage preservation policy and management, traditional technology and facilities, formative prototype research and the creative inheritance of traditional arts, scientific conservation technology, cultural industry and tourism, life and traditional culture, cultural exchange and globalization, cultural heritage in North Korea, and documentation of cultural heritage, etc.

In response to the rapid increase in the functions of university research and industry-academia cooperation, NUCH established the Industry-Academy Cooperation Foundation in November 2008 to cultivate more human resources in line with future industrial growth and to meet the demands of businesses in the traditional culture area. In January 2009 the Foundation established a framework for the simultaneous, systematic support and facilitation of research and industry-academia cooperation in order to provide integrated support for these two functions.