Inside Korean Culture: Research Projects, Opportunities, and Methodological Approaches

Dr. Boyun Choe is an associate research fellow (arts policy research division) at the Korea Culture and Tourism Institute, a research organization under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Sports in Korea. After earning her MA in Performing Arts Administration at New York University and PhD in Cultural Policy Studies at University of Warwick, she completed her Post-doctoral research fellowship funded by National Research Foundation of Korea. Before pursuing her academic career, she worked as arts administrator in the United States and Korea.

She recently participated in New Arts Policy Taskforce Team (2017) in Korea and published many policy research reports. Her research interests include, but not limited to, cultural policy discourses, creativity in the creative economy, arts education policies, arts for social change, workforce development and cultural policy making & implementation

Her recent articles include “Critical Reflections on the Identity Confusion of Culture and Arts Education Policy in Korea”(2019), “The Arts-based Social Prescription for Tackling Loneliness and Its Implication for Cultural Policy: the English Case”(2019), and many others. A part of her doctoral research “The English Model of Creativity: Cultural Politics of an Idea” was published with International Journal of Cultural Policy (2010).