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ARKO’s Initiatives

The Co-matching Fund

Aims to promote cultural and artistic exchanges and collaborations by establishing joint funds with overseas organizations, focusing on supporting international exchanges for Korean artists. As part of the International Partnership in Support of Arts Creation (ISAC), we have collaborated with six overseas organizations, starting with Arts Council England in 2016, and have since supported a total number of 108 organizations.


Since 2024, we have been collaborating with various overseas consortium organizations based on our partnership with GLUON (Brussels, Belgium) as part of the European Commission's S+T+ARTS4WATERII program. This project strives to build stable and strategic multi-year exchanges with various countries through budget matching between partner organizations.

2023 Korea-Canada Cultural Exchange Networking Day_leekangha memorial society

2023 Korea-Canada Cultural Exchange Networking Day_Connected A

2023 Korea-Canada Cultural Exchange Networking Day_INSCAPE

2023-2024 Korea-Canada Cultural Exchange Networking Day_He Jin Jang Dance

2023-2024 Korea-Canada Cultural Exchange Networking Day_Camera Lucida, Project YYIN × National accessArts Centre ⓒ JD WOO

How it Works

ARKO has been implementing various 2 to 3 year-long joint programs with overseas organizations through Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and budget matching.

- Year One (Preparation): Selection of partner country, organization, and common theme
- Year Two (Research): Networking and Research
- Year Three (Presentation): Project implementation such as presentation of artistic work

The structure of each project, including the budget allocation and details of implementation (i.e. collaboration period, theme, research and presentation), can be tailor-made through discussions with partner organizations. Moving beyond the one-on-one model to a one-to-many approach, and going beyond partnerships between major national support organizations, we strive to find new support models through exchange such as partnering with private cultural and arts foundations that can match budgets.

International Partnership in Support of Arts Creation(ISAC) Previous Partners

Cooperation Institute
Canada Council for the Arts
Collaboration Structure
  • Discovery and promotion of research projects in all genres, including literature, performing arts, visual arts, and multi-purpose arts
  • "Environmental Sustainability, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion" theme-based genre diversity, functional and experimental work styles, and project planning that includes innovative and future-oriented elements suitable for post-COVID situations
Collaboration Structure
2022 2023 2024
MOU Conclusion Research Collaboration of Project in
Major Performance
  • Supported 19 Korea-Canada colloborative projects in 2023-2024.
  • 10 research projects and 3 network-building projects in 2023 and 6 co-creation/production projects in 2024
Cooperation Institute
DUTCH CULTURE, CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Collaboration Structure
  • Utilize a platform for International Arts Joint Fund to expand and accelerate the cooperation relationship to exchange culture and arts between Korea and Netherlands through diverse exchanges △ between artists △ between two institutes of the two countries and △ the hosting of international symposium
  • Enhance the cooperation of two countries through the establishment of a cooperation system for the culture and arts of ‘Inclusivity and/or Innovation’ between Korea and Netherlands
Collaboration Structure
2020 2021 2022
MOU Conclusion Research Collaboration of Project in
Major Performance
  • Held the 2022 ARKO International Symposium – Re:THINK, IMAGINE and ACT

    Date: June 7–8, 2022 / Time: 17:00–20:45 (KST)

    Venue: Online (YouTube livestream) and Oil Tank Culture Park T1, Glass Pavilion, Seoul

Cooperation Institute
National Arts Council Singapore
Collaboration Structure
  • Discovered excellent cases of the exchange of culture and arts between two countries through the hosting institute for preliminary research
  • Selected a general planner of each country (Korea-Facilitator /Singapore-Producer)
  • Promoted a joint project by four sides of Art Councils and general planners of both countries and held an international arts symposium (online) in schedule
  • Supported private arts exchange projects of both countries through the fund from each country
  • Introduced a three-year collaboration structure through the procurement of a project operation method and a period to discuss the cooperation
National Arts Council Singapore
2019 2020 2021
MOU Conclusion Research Collaboration of Project in
Major Performance
  • Held the 2021 ARKO International Symposium – Re:CONNECTION

    Day 1: Arts in the time of the pandemic

    Day 2: Relationships, connections, and exchange in the time of the pandemic

    Date: March 23–24, 2023 / Time: 15:00–16:30 (KST)

    Venue: Online (YouTube livestream)

Cooperation Institute
Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces
Collaboration Structure
  • Discovered a collaboration project through the support of preliminary research in each country
  • Secured a sufficient preliminary research period with the support for 2 consecutive years and enhanced the qualitative performance of exchange
Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces
2018 2019
Research Collaboration of Project in Progress
Major Performance
  • Supported 13 research cases in 2018 as a preliminary stage for collaboration.
  • Created a joint logo by the Ministries of Culture, Sports and Tourism of both countries, presented in January 2019.
  • Announced a public call for joint production and presentation in 2019
Cooperation Institute
Goethe-Institut Korea
Collaboration Structure
  • Promoted a cooperation for a part of the project planned by the Culture Institute
  • Procured a sufficient preliminary research period with the support for 2 consecutive years and enhance the qualitative performance of exchange
Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces
2017 2018
Research Collaboration of Project in Progress
Major Performance
  • Korea was selected as the Country of Honor at the 2018 Heidelberg Stückemarkt, supporting three Korean plays, three theater companies, one performance, and one exhibition.
  • Project Nolgong From DMZ to the Berlin Wall was performed in January 2019
  • Held the Korea–Germany Music Festival “Traces of Sounds” at the Seoul Arts Center.
Cooperation Institute
Arts Council England
Collaboration Structure
  • Created a joint 1:1 fund to operate a project promotion organization separately
Created a joint 1:1 fund to operate a project promotion organization separately
2016 2017 2018
Research Collaboration of Project in Progress Performance Report
Major Performance
  • Selected 21 collaboration projects from 76 pre-research cases in visual arts, performing arts, and literature (£1.4 million total investment).
  • Created a joint fund logo with Arts Council England and conducted joint promotional activities.
  • Held the 2016 Korea–UK Arts & Culture Conference in Seoul and the 2018 Joint Fund Evaluation Session in London.

Phrase Guidelines for ISAC(International Partnership in Support of Arts Creation) Participants

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