With the beginning of the 21st century, modern people's conscious structure has outstandingly changed from functional and materialistic values to cultural ones. Culture is an important driving force of social development and a crucial element of enhan...
With the beginning of the 21st century, modern people's conscious structure has outstandingly changed from functional and materialistic values to cultural ones. Culture is an important driving force of social development and a crucial element of enhancing and cultivating creativeness. Therefore, cultural industry has come to the fore recently.
Although we have valuable traditional culture and craftwork technology, it has not been historically kept alive and become extinct due to the long-term negligence of development of traditional craftwork technology.
With these problems, craftwork productions, as cultural goods, are indescribably scanty, and regional traditional craftwork productions have no special characteristics, just selling in tourist resorts nationwide. In addition to that, such systems as quality guarantee and inferior good compensation/exchange have not been fully established, resulting in inconveniency for domestic and overseas consumers, and, more important, debasing national credence for foreign tourists. Since concrete countermeasures for these craftwork production problems was not fully established, cultural craftworks have been recklessly imported from foreign countries and then transformed into domestic traditional ones, selling nationwide.
No matter how many great cultural assets and outstanding craftwork masters a country may possess, artistic goods cannot be produced without a systematic support. It is the case of Korea.
A systematic safety device must be worked out urgently to prevent the crisis of domestic craftwork industry and to develop it. Just in this regard, the certification system of cultural craftworks is necessary.
The aim of this study was to examine the actual state of domestic and overseas certification system of cultural craftworks, and to analyze the problem of domestic certification system.
Based on the study findings, the investigator presented following countermeasures to improve the domestic certification system of cultural craftworks:
First, must consolidate cultural craftworks-related laws and systems, and introduce a certification system of cultural craftworks.
Second, must consistently support and carry out follow-up management of the certification system of cultural craftworks.
Third, must cultivate and support cultural craftworks.
On the basis of solid governmental support and well-prepared laws and systems, a national-level certification system of cultural craftworks must be established. In order to minimize inefficient factors and manage resources in an intensive manner, various base-expansion policies and systems for craftwork cultural industry must be improved comprehensively. The desires to develop craftwork cultural industry must be instilled. Various governmental support systems must be integrated. And consumers must convert their consciousness and distributional business entities must be instilled with the zeal for production. In order to promote purchase, an integrated certifying and managing system must be introduced step by step. In order for these certification systems not to become a mere scrap of paper, follow-up management and settlement must be systematized. And in order to characterize certification systems, national and local governments as well as craftwork-related associations, agencies, and entities must actively take part in consistent studies on better policies and supports. And based on an inherent function of certification system of cultural craftworks, the support of merchandising must be carried out in connection with an effective means of sales.
When above measures are implemented successfully, the quality enhancement of cultural craftworks will be effectively achieved in general, and the convertible foundation of social awareness for craftwork industry will be prepared. Furthermore, overseas expansion of Korean craftwork productions will be realized on the basis of this foundation. In addition, craft industry will enhance national credibility and become a highly value-added important industry in the national economy.