Woo Yeon

Woo Yeon

Born 1971. After entering the Korean Literature Dept. of Sookmyung Women’s University, Ms. Woo encountered the performing arts through the theater club and writing plays. After graduation she became involved in private-sector company management for ChangMu dance company, Modl Theatre company and so on before starting a production company for festival planning for ASSITEJI International Festival, the ChangMu International Arts Festival and other international festivals. Until 2005 she was director of the planning dept. of the SIDance program of the CID-UNESCO Korea Chapter, where she was involved in the planning and programming numerous international dance festivals such as the “2005 Korea-Japan Butoh Festival & Contemporary Dance Festival,” the “Digital Dance Festival” and the “British Council Forward Motion Korea Exhibition.” In 2006, working as a producer at the public Seoul Performing Arts Company she learned about management of public arts companies while planning productions of musicals and total theater and promoting overseas performance tours. Since 2007, Ms. Woo has headed the International Exchange Dept. of the Korean Arts Management Service (KAMS), a branch organization of South Korea’s Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism. There she is active as representative in charge of programs for expanding the activities of Koran artists into overseas markets though the Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS) and other programs and strategic international exchange programs.