"It's coming to my neighborhood, too!" The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is offering a project to support the non-metropolitan area with 'famous performances.'

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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Choi Hwi-young) announced that it will participate in the "2026 Representative Performance Content Regional Distribution Support Project" from the 9th to March 30th with the Arts Management Support Center (CEO Kim Jang-ho).

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said in its 2026 work report that it will focus on the "This Is Coming to My Neighborhood!" project, which supports local tours such as famous performances and exhibitions to bridge the regional cultural gap. As part of this project, a total of 14 billion won will be invested to distribute major performances favored by audiences to public performance facilities outside the metropolitan area (Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon) to launch a new "representative performance content regional distribution support project." Through this, the local performance market will be revitalized by increasing opportunities for local residents outside the metropolitan area to enjoy basic performing arts and by utilizing existing infrastructure such as local literary centers to facilitate access to high-quality performance contents in the region.

This project will support five areas: dance (Western/Korean), musical, theater, Western music (classical), and Korean music (traditional). Based on the Korea Performing Arts Integrated Computer Network (KOPIS), performances with top ticket sales from 2024 to 2025 will be supported, allowing local performances that have been popular since they were mainly performed in Seoul and other metropolitan areas. However, performances by national arts organizations and national institutions, performances in Korea, and works selected to support regional distribution of performing arts in 2026 are excluded from the support.

Performing facilities that can participate in the support project are indoor public performance halls with more than 800 seats outside the metropolitan area (Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon). Performance facilities can apply for support after coordinating and confirming the performance schedule and budget through consultation with the organization, and the support limit per performance facility is 300 million won. It allows up to three works to be attracted from one facility so that local residents can meet various performance contents by field at local hub performance facilities.

The selection of performing organizations, works, and performance facilities is determined by autonomous information exchange and linkage results when performing organizations and performance facilities that meet the conditions apply for a project through the performing arts online platform "Part:ner." Details such as the business notice, the list of works eligible for support, and other details can be found on the website of the Arts Management Support Center.

"The representative performance content regional distribution support project is a new project this year to improve the performance distribution structure centered on the metropolitan area," said Lee Yong-shin, an arts policy officer at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. "We will ease the gap between local cultural enjoyment and develop the performance distribution policy by allowing local residents to actually watch representative performance works that have only been exposed to fame at nearby performance halls."

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