Suh Myung-Gu

Suh Myung-Gu

Born 1974. Graduate of Sungkyunkwan University majoring in public administration, and then majored in business administration graduate school. He then joined the company Metaa Culture as Value and was involved in the production of numerous performance works in the areas the traditional arts and crossover “Dawon arts,” including productions touring to countries like the UK, France, Belgium the Netherlands and Switzerland. Suh has participated in planning of a wide range of international exchange programs and festival programming, including the Korea-EU Amity Commemorative Culture Program, a cooperative exchange program with the Mongolia Arts Committee and the Mongolia National University of Arts and Culture, the World Voices Festival, the World Peace Festival and the Asia Pacific Week Berlin. He has also been involved in arts program development and community culture research projects. From 2009, Suh has served as manager of the Mullae Arts Village of the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, concentrating his activities in the areas of arts creation and new arts support systems for arts and culture in the Seoul Art Spaces and community-based arts environment support. He has developed and implemented a 3-dimensional arts/culture support system map connecting the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture’s arts support grants programs and the Seoul Art Spaces, and runs a community Alternative Space Network and a Performing Arts Network and other programs that stimulate the arts in communities.