The Jeonju Cultural Foundation (Representative Director Choi Rak-gi) announced the final selection of 8 recipients for the Jeonju Emerging Artists Support Program on the 24th.

This year's selected emerging artists have shown outstanding creative abilities and potential in various genres such as theater, music, and visual arts, and it is expected that their activities will bring new vitality to the local cultural and arts scene.

In the "First Presentation" category, Kim Min-ji and Jung Yoo-jin were selected. Kim Min-ji will make her debut in directing a play titled "The Letter is Late," focusing on the value of learning and intergenerational empathy. Jung Yoo-jin will present her first solo exhibition, "A World Linked by Fiction," exploring contradictions arising from excessive information and visually expressing them.

In the "Next Step Presentation" category in the performing arts field, Kim Yoon-ha, an instrumentalist, Lee Hee-joon, an actor, and Choi San-ha, a clarinetist, were named. Kim Yoon-ha will showcase a performance titled "To Reach There," intertwining music and records using the gayageum and books as mediums. Lee Hee-joon plans to convey messages of comfort and empathy through a healing theater piece titled "A Winter Aurora." Choi San-ha is working on a project called "Baro_Cla," reinterpreting Baroque music through the clarinet.

In the visual arts field of the "Next Step Presentation" category, Kim Gyu-ri, Moon Chae-won, and Park Ro-woon were selected. Kim Gyu-ri is preparing an exhibition titled "Waiting for Time that Cannot be Met in a Place where You Cannot Meet," planning to add sound to the characteristics and stories of a place for a restructured work. Moon Chae-won visualizes sensory scenes derived from seemingly harmless but useless fortune-telling acts in her exhibition "Fortune Teller." Park Ro-woon, planning an exhibition titled "Circle of Shadows," will showcase the process of emotions circulating and changing over time through collage works.

Choi Rak-gi, the representative director of the Jeonju Cultural Foundation, stated, "The Jeonju Cultural Foundation is making every effort to provide effective support and establish a stable creative foundation for young artists preparing for a new leap in the art world, even in challenging creative environments." He added, "We ask for your interest and support in the diverse creative activities that the 8 selected artists will unfold throughout Jeonju."