Issue Three-track Korea-Japan cooperation in the cultural content industry

Summary

To strengthen cultural cooperation, the report proposes three ways to expand collaboration in the cultural content industry, a sector expected to keep growing over the medium to long term. First, the two governments should cooperate to expand content exports by sharing policies and running joint projects on applying AI and other new technologies to content, nurturing key genres, co-hosting exhibitions and fairs, and setting and evaluating growth targets. Second, as overseas consumption of both countries' content rises, damage from copyright and trademark infringement and counterfeit distribution abroad has become very large, so they should share policies, legal systems and technical responses and seek improvements together. Third, using intergovernmental frameworks such as the Korea-Japan culture ministers' meeting, they should discuss ways to ease the obstacles Korean content start-ups face when entering Japan. This would include providing information on Japanese visa, overseas talent attraction and business matching support so that both sides benefit.