'2025 Taekwondo Wanderers Nokdu' Selected as the Korean Sound Culture Hall for the Second Consecutive Year

Five cultural arts centers in the province, including Buan Arts Center and the Korean Sound Culture Hall, have passed the '2026 Cultural Arts Center Specialization Support Project' competition and will receive a total of 530 million won in performance production support.

The Korea Culture and Arts Centers Association (hereinafter referred to as KOCACA) announced on the 28th that through the '2026 Cultural Arts Center Specialization Support Project' competition, a total of 95 out of 17 municipal cultural arts centers nationwide were selected.

A total of 121 programs submitted from 117 cultural arts centers in 17 provinces were subject to presentation evaluations, resulting in the selection of 95 cultural arts centers, including 37 for the production of new performance contents, 19 for establishing existing repertoires, and 39 for series and festival planning.

In Jeollabuk-do, Buan Arts Center (original musical 'Time Engraved on Salt, Gomso' - 130 million won), Gunsan Arts Center (Little Pirate Troupe and Treasure Island - 90 million won), Namwon Cheongawon (Manboksa, Stories Left at First Snow - 110 million won), Wanju Indigenous Arts and Culture Center (Wanju Puppet Theater Fiesta - 90 million won), and the Korean Sound Culture Hall (K-Culture Project 'Taekwondo Wanderers Nokdu' - 110 million won) were selected.

In its second year following 2025, this year's project aims to foster cultural arts centers as regional performing arts hubs that lead in planning, producing, and branding performance contents. With a total budget of 10 billion won, four times larger than the previous year, the project has been expanded and reorganized into an integrated support system that covers the entire process of discovering, nurturing, and establishing performance contents, from producing new performance contents to establishing existing repertoires, and planning series and festivals.