3 Cultural Studies Masters Degree Programs in South Korea

The Graduate School of Korea Culture and Industry is a special-purpose graduate school dedicated to fostering professional human resources in convergence content and cultural content areas that are required for a culturally knowledge-based society of the 21st century. Our graduate school offers master's degree and doctoral degree programs in convergence content. The master's degree program provides three majors to choose from, including Storytelling, Cultural Space, and Culture and Arts Management while the doctoral degree program specializes in a single major of Convergence Content. To foster diversified culture and industry professionals, our master's program is divided into two streams: Dissertation Degree Course and Practical Project Degree Course. Our degree programs feature a variety of education courses, including interdisciplinary convergence education, creative seminars, 1:1 tailor-made tutorials, cultural field trips at home and abroad, and industry-academy practices with aims to foster convergence professionals equipped with the ability to analyze, plan, and operate the trends of the cultural industry.

The Department of Religious Culture Studies at Jungwon University offers the only courses that are differentiated from similar Departments at other schools in that it creates a story by blending cultural properties with religion, and cultivates the creative cultural industry planning human resources. The 21st century is the so-called era of culture based on the rapid development of digital technology. Cultural industries are recognized as future high value-added industries, and the Korean cultural contents market is in its beginning stages. We are living in a modern society marking the age of globalization and convergence, which more favors a talented individual who can make a new story, plan cultural contents, and do creative work on the basis of emotion and creativity.

It operates a goal-oriented education program using state-of-the-art facilities to foster 21st century digital image experts and critics. The goal-oriented education program refers to industry practice-oriented education so that graduate students can become practical talents who can meet the demands of the industrial society and have the qualities as experts required by the modern film age.