President Message

A New Leap Forward: Arts Education and Administrative System Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century

Allow me to declare, with pride, that we have successfully made remarkable achievement in establishing the solid academic position of the Korea National University of Arts (the K-Arts) both domestically and internationally, thereby reaching the apex of success over the years. Our success, without doubt, is the outcome of the concerted efforts of administrative staff, faculty, and students, not to mention those who have faithfully managed everyday life of the campus.

Facing the imminent challenges from rapidly changing environment of arts education in the 21st century, and unprecedented shift in political, economic and sociocultural landscapes of the new millennium, I assert with confidence that now is the right moment of the second leap.

The second leap would allow us to respond effectively to the unexperienced challenges by revising the conventional curricula as well as the admission and administrative systems. Above all, the renewed academic and administrative endeavor must put special emphasis on the importance of the invisible curricula, which was repeatedly proposed by our late President Lee Kang Sook. In this context, every member of the K-Arts is expected to cooperate with each other closely, on the basis of free and creative communication, for the purpose of establishing the new system of education and administration.

My role as President requires rapid responses to the demands of the time. I believe I am here to serve as a pivot of communication and mutual understanding. During the entire period of my term in office, I will do my utmost to induce balance and harmony in all aspects of education and administration, based on the solid trust between students and teachers, as well as among the school personnel. My goal is to encourage our highly talented students to realize their full artistic potential. K-Arts, in short, will become ‘an arts school in its truest sense.’

President of K-Arts Kim Daejin