MB 정부의 문화정책 평가와 박근혜 정부의 정책 과제

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Another regime change is in progress. The previous governments policies are being evaluated while the current administration presents new policies. Most administrations analyze their predecessors policies rigorously and divide their outcomes into successes and failures, so as to develop and inherit the former and to improve the latter. MB administration broke such a conventional practice by abolishing most cultural policies implemented by Roh administration and declaring that it would draw up its own policies anew. In the same vein, MB administration chose a slogan of Selection and Concentration for its cultural policy, which resulted in a divide, or polarization, in cultural industry and fundamental art. The Arms Length Principle upheld throughout the peoples government and Roh administration to support the culture and art sector was completely overturned by MB administration. Such a move stemmed from not any philosophical ground toward cultural policy but some obsessive compulsions to eliminate all remaining vestiges of the previous regime.
Still, it is questionable to what extent the agenda of state affairs adopted by MB administration made a substantial difference from its predecessor. A regime, which is not fitted with philosophical perspectives and policy-based visions, cannot but depend on the ideas put forth by bureaucratic society to proceed with its policies. In the end, despite the bombastic rhetoric, such a regime repeats the same old policies with different slogans.
GH regimes cultural policy should avert the failures committed by MB administration. GH administration should not revert to the vicious practices of MB administration to divide the cultural world into the left and right wings for the purpose of facilitating the ideological duel so that its slogan of “An Era of Cultural Prosperity” will go beyond a glib slogan. Differently put, GH administration should employ cultural diversity and publicness as its central philosophy and develop a substantial and practical Cultural New Deal policy to reinvigorate fundamental art and cultural industry.