MEXICO CITY — South Korea and Mexico agreed to deepen cooperation in culture, including joint creation and production of content and the development of pop music performance venues, on the occasion of President Lee Jae-myung's state visit to Mexico.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said Minister Choi Hwi-young, joined by Park Jin-young, co-chair of the Popular Culture Exchange Committee, met Mexican Culture Minister Claudia Curiel de Icaza at the National Museum of Textiles in Mexico City on the 24th to discuss cultural cooperation between the two countries.
According to the ministry, Choi said he was pleased that the presidential summit had produced the meaningful result of a memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation between the two culture ministries. He said he hoped the two countries would continue working together across a range of areas, including expanded cooperation in the arts and cultural industries, support for joint creation and production, and joint talent development.
Curiel de Icaza said she shared the view that cooperation in culture and sports needed to be strengthened, adding that she expected joint creation and production between the two countries particularly in film and television programs. The two sides agreed to form a working group to follow up on the cultural MOU and discuss concrete implementation measures.
Park, who accompanied the minister, said demand for K-pop concerts in Mexico was strong and that cooperation between the two countries was needed to build popular culture performance venues there.
The ministry also signed an MOU on tourism cooperation with Mexico's tourism ministry on the sidelines of the summit, agreeing to expand personnel exchanges between the two countries and to share and cooperate on best practices in areas such as tourism policy, statistics and market information.
According to the Presidential Office, Lee and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a summit on the 24th and signed 17 sector-specific MOUs. In the cultural field, the two sides agreed to broaden cooperation that had centered on film and publishing to include the cultural and creative industries, the arts and cultural institutions, and to pursue joint creation and production as well as talent development. They will also set up a working group to make fuller use of cultural facilities such as K-Culture centers.
In tourism, the two countries agreed to share policy, statistics, market information and best practices, to promote regional and sustainable tourism, and to expand cooperation among governments, local authorities, the private sector and academia.
