This study considers that the right to enjoy culture and arts of the underprivileged should be guaranteed in terms of fundamental rights and for this it objects for securing finances by promoting individual contribution since stable and continuative c...
This study considers that the right to enjoy culture and arts of the underprivileged should be guaranteed in terms of fundamental rights and for this it objects for securing finances by promoting individual contribution since stable and continuative cultural support is difficult relying on national treasury.
South Korea's intensified gap between the rich and poor due to economic polarization affected on inequality of enjoying culture and arts also as global positioning and attention on culture and art gets increased, cultural deficiency of the underprivileged are relatively getting worse. The right to enjoy culture and arts are essential elements of the human rights and it should be guaranteed as the fundamental rights. Cultural deficiency of underprivileged are not only affecting on enjoying culture, but also affects on developing own interests prior to participate in cultural and arts activity. And this could cause narrow based on popular preference which is easy and getatable. In terms of simple supply and demand, unpopular culture and arts can be easily lag behind, thus to transmit culture and arts traditions for future generations and to be creatively developed, there should be a political support for the underprivileged to enjoy culture and arts and this could form social equity.
The present government which established in February this year, selected 'culture prosperity' as one of the four government administration basis, and settled 'secure 2% of cultural finances', 'ravel the culture gap' as a subject. But in addition to the Ministry of culture, sports and tourism, large scale of exigent budget projects for public welfare, stabilization and welfare in each divisions are increasing, thus diverse financing besides national treasury are demanded.
In case of western welfare states, while on the economic recession, non profit organizations substituted the role of government and financial resources for this were provided by spontaneous contributions from privates. Assessing actual condition of South Korea's current donations based on taxation materials for income tax deduction application, private donations show higher portion than corporations donations, however most of donations are converged to a religious groups and social welfare organs rather than culture and arts organizations.
Thus, I suggested the following as the measures to promote individual contributions for expanding right to enjoy culture and arts for underprivileged.
Firstly, substitute labor costs by activating talent donation which induces voluntary participation of privates, and establish the national matching system by producing regional manpower pool for practical using. Secondly, reinforce the benefits of donation by taxation policy supporting and intensified incentives for donors. Thirdly, publicize the advantages of donation by searching model cases and establishing the public benefit donation brand. Fourth, activate crowd funding which is able to donate a small sum of money by a large number of people, and reinforce online service to make individuals easy and comfortable of donation by establishing donation portal website which can search the designated donation for culture and arts organization. Lastly, the most important thing for beneficiary organization is enhancing the management of contributions and procure transparency for obtaining the trust. Also introduce the concept of marketing service and thoroughly administrate the donors to avoid a one-off donation for individuals and at national level, endeavor is needed to procure transparency by supporting periodic consulting to the cultural and arts organization.
Embrace the underprivileged and produce the cultures together from the participation of nation by themselves gratifies concept of 'Culture' itself, and by collaborating with government policies this could lead to the culture prosperity.