The Comprehensive Support Center for Enterprises for Persons with Disabilities (Chairman Park Maru) and the Korea Disabled Arts and Culture Institute (Chairman Bang Gwi-hee) signed a ‘Business Agreement for the Promotion of Enterprises for Persons with Disabilities in Culture and Arts’ at the Daehakro Ieum Center on Monday, August 18.
The Center for Comprehensive Support for Enterprises for Persons with Disabilities identifies and nurtures entrepreneurial talent with disabilities through education, consulting, and incubation programs, supporting their commercialization and corporate growth. In particular, through the issuance of certificates of enterprise certification for persons with disabilities and the operation of a public procurement system, annual public procurement of products from enterprises for persons with disabilities amounts to approximately 2.7 trillion won.
Through this agreement, both organizations will leverage their infrastructure and expertise to support disabled artists with creative capabilities to grow into entrepreneurs in the cultural and arts sector, and will establish a foundation for mutual growth, including collaboration between disabled businesses and disabled artists.
Park Maru, the director of the Center for Comprehensive Support for Enterprises for Persons with Disabilities, said, “I hope that enterprises for persons with disabilities will actively take root in the cultural and artistic fields so that the creative activities of disabled artists can lead to entrepreneurship and independence,” and added, “We will seek ways to cooperate to promote the growth of enterprises for persons with disabilities in the cultural and artistic fields by linking the resources and policies of the two organizations.”
Bang Gwi-hee, the president of the Korea Disabled Artists' Foundation, said, "We need practical support so that disabled artists with outstanding artistic talent can grow into new leaders in the Korean content industry." She added, "With this agreement as an opportunity, we will spare no effort to ensure that disabled artists can grow into entrepreneurs and establish themselves as new economic models for our society."
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