Mullae Creation Community in South Korea

Abstract

In South Korea, ‘Culturenomics’ is utilized as a logic tool in urban regeneration plan. Lagged cities highlight their cultural capital to generate economic effects. This plan can make the lagged city have creative and cultural image. Therefore, it can be meaningful and important to exploring concrete case of the urban regeneration in South Korea. Mullae Creation Community can be the typical example of the plan. Artists in the community metamorphosed this lagged place into creative and artistic place to seek coexistence with residents and steel industry workers. In this way, Mullae creative community has been formed naturally and voluntarily without external actors like governmental organizations. However, as the governmental actors started to support this creative community by providing subsidies therefore, the question of sustainability in the community has been raised. Accordingly, this research raises the need for sustainable development of Mullae creation community.

Keywords: Mullae creation community, sustainable development, artists, Seoul municipal government