KOFICE chief envisions Korea as Asia’s cultural hub

Park Chang-sik, president of the Korea Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE), witnessed the spread of Korean content around the world firsthand. As a former television producer, he made “Years of Upheaval” (1992) and “Sandglass” (1995), two of the most popular drama series broadcast in Korea in the 1990s. He also led renowned production company Kimjonghak Production when it produced “Lee San, Wind of the Palace” (2007), a historical drama starring Lee Seo-jin and Han Ji-min. All three programs were exported to other countries for viewing. Of the 50 or so dramas Park had his hands on, many found audiences outside Korea. “To be honest, the reason we first started exporting content was out of necessity. It was around the late 1990s that we began selling dramas to Japan and Taiwan. Back then, we often wondered, ‘Why is this even working?’ But starting in the 2000s, K-content began to gain real attention, and that’s how today’s ‘K’ was born,” he said in a recent interview with The Korea Times at the KOFICE headquarters in Yeongdeungpo District, SWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times