'Creative Seed', a project to support the creation of new artists. 3,000 people, 2 million won per person.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Hwang Hee), together with the Korea Artists Welfare Foundation (CEO Park Young-jung), provides a ‘reserve for new artists’ creations so that up-and-coming artists with less than 2 years of artistic experience can settle in the art world and actively engage in artistic activities. Business-Creative Seed (hereafter, Creative Seed) was newly established and the first online application is accepted from today June 7th to June 14th.
For the creative seed project, a creation reserve of 2 million won per person is provided once in a lifetime to a new artist who has completed the certification of artistic activity by a young artist and meets the conditions such as the income recognized of household members (applicant and spouse) is within 120% of the standard median income. support business. This year, 3,000 up-and-coming artists (worth 6 billion won) will be divided into 1st and 2nd rounds to support 1,500 people each.
New artists can apply for a certificate of artistic activity if artists who have never received a certificate of artistic activity have professional artistic activity in the past two years. Professional performance of artistic activities means artistic activities (performances, exhibitions, books, records, etc.) publicly announced as part of vocational activities, not for hobbies, leisure, volunteer work, education, and events, and may be applied online through the artist career information system.
Those eligible for support will be selected in the order of artists with low income recognition confirmed through the social security information system, and in the case of disabled artists, if they meet their qualifications regardless of their grade or type, they will first apply. The first applicants will be announced in the third week of July, and the second application will be accepted at the end of July.
“We hope that the creative seed support fund, which was introduced to expand the creative safety net for artists, will solve any difficulties of emerging artists who have just entered the art world and help them secure their self-sustaining power,” said a policy official at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Source: News Culture
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