We promise to become an arts institution that accepts and responds to the cultural flow of the world and the arts, to strengthen creativity-oriented education and experimental activities for the cultivation of specialized talent.
Chairman’S GREETINGS
The Seoul Institute of the Arts of the educational Dongnang Arts Foundation celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2022 since its establishment.
Early on in 1962, Dongnang teacher founded the Korean Research Institute for Dramatic Arts, establishing a drama center with its own theater as well as a drama school. Then, artist, educator and manager Yu Deok-hyung, who was also the honorary chairman of the board of directors, raised the bar to an arts-specific school in 1974, and afterwards, set up the basis and educational programs for an arts college, resulting in the current Seoul Institute of the Arts and its current prestige.
For the past 60 years the Dongnang Arts Foundation and the Seoul Institute of the Arts has concentrated on establishing education of the arts as a main pillar for the development of the arts and culture of our nation, and has contributed to the globalization of the arts and culture industry through the Hallyu (the Korean Wave), and plan to continue this tradition and direction onwards.
Now, the responsibility and duty of the 60-year-old Dongnang Arts Foundation is to grow the tradition and identity of the Seoul Institute of the Arts, which has responded to history and tradition, to internally share its founding ideology and values, and nationally, to expand the creation of artistic works that contain the spirit and values demanded by future arts education and the industrial environment.
For this purpose, the Dongnang Arts Foundation plans to strengthen the specialized school system of the Seoul Institute of the Arts and its path-forging educational system, and just like the relationship between the <medical school> and the <university hospital>, to strengthen the connections between the Ansan Campus and the arts creation scenes in creating a dualized system and space.
By accepting and responding to the flow of world arts and culture, we plan to strengthen the creation-oriented education and experiment-based creative activities so as to cultivate professional talent, and to make the Seoul Institute of the Arts a globally competitive educational institution for the arts.
Currently, Seoul Institute of the Arts has reached a stage where it has to reinvent the paradigm of arts education and arts creation, and it must renovate itself to leap forward again as a creativity-based arts college. Moreover, Seoul Institute of the Arts must strengthen its specialization and globalization in the context of the 4th Industrial Revolution, the global COVID-19 pandemic and the relevant dramatic changes that followed, while expanding on its current prestige and gaining an edge in global competitiveness.
The Dongnang Arts Foundation will strive to continue the unfinished work of teacher Dongnang and the philosophy of the honorary chairman of the board Yu Deok-hyung, to set Seoul Institute of the Arts on its path towards future-oriented arts education and the nurturing of the nation’s art development through the creation of artistic works that contain the artistic soul and spirit of the relevant times.
We request the larger community of the Seoul Institute of the Arts, which includes the teachers, staff, current students and alumni, to treat each other as a ‘family’ and to have belief and pride for the college so that it may leap forward to become a global arts college.
Thank you.