Abstract
Today, intellectual education based on the various experiences and emotions of citizens through culture and art education draws attention in terms of obtaining improvements in social welfare. Citizens can become further aware of culture and art and get a wider range of benefits in cultural welfare. Culture and art education are important activities of cultural welfare. This study examines some of the successes of the Seoul Arts Center academy, which represents and hosts diverse cultural and art activities in South Korea. These activities have led to successful promotion of culture and art education for Seoul citizens. Based on Lewin’s change management process model, the cases that were analyzed focus on the change in culture and art education in the Seoul Arts Center academy. Findings from this study indicate the contribution to the improvement in cultural welfare for citizens from their engagement in activities within art education and culture. The discussion also highlights that good management of the changes in educational activity with the citizens’ needs and improvements in the maturity of civil society were critical factors for educational sustainability and success.
Highlights
The 21st century has resulted in a dream society and has attached importance to imagination and originality following the rise of an information-based society
Culture and art education are characterized by the gradual increase in the experience of education in such genres as “art exhibitions” or “Western music” rather than in “traditional art,” “drama,” or “musicals.” Such a higher rate of experiencing culture education demonstrates that the audience’s need for general knowledge about culture and arts to enjoy performances more actively, instead of being satisfied with appreciation, is more widely recognized, and that the necessity for an environment for pursuing the expansion of humanistic thinking through the pursuit of knowledge based on culture and art is reinforced. To meet these social changes, the South Korean government continues to change its direction for cultural welfare policies and to provide culture and art education through the Seoul Arts Center academy, in order to improve the cultural welfare of citizens
Cultural welfare is characterized by cultural policies centered on those enjoying it to improve people’s quality of life
Summary
The 21st century has resulted in a dream society and has attached importance to imagination and originality following the rise of an information-based society. In this context, culture has drawn attention as a key element of imagination and creativity (Haylett 2003). Societies should allow their individual members to develop their potential and creativity to the utmost and to guarantee a minimum living (Yeates 2001). In this respect, culture can be a requisite for the realization of a welfare society, and the reinforcement of cultural welfare can
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