Date: November 29(Mon) - December 2(Thur), 2021

Venue: KRIHS, Sejong, Korea

From November 29, 2021, to December 2, 2021, GDPC organized a workshop in collaboration with the World Bank’s Culture, Heritage, and Sustainable Tourism Knowledge Silos Breaker and the Tokyo Learning Development Center. This cooperation was part of the joint research project “Creative Cities: Learning from the Republic of Korea’s (ROK) Experience.” The workshop was targeted at senior government officials of client countries and task teams. It aimed to explore Korea and Japan’s experiences in boosting culture and creativity and promoting cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in terms of success factors and challenges.

This workshop provided an interactive virtual platform to learn different enablers for unlocking the potentials of CCIs and delivering the triple benefits across the economic, social, and spatial dimensions. It also presented the guiding principles, national and local support systems, and best practices from Korea and Japan. Moreover, the workshop provided decision-makers and task teams with the knowledge to design and operationalize policies and measures to support CCIs for sustainable urban development and city competitiveness.