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On the left is the poster for "Jungle," a work by the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company to tour Sweden, the U.K. and Spain and on the right is a poster for the exhibition "Jongmyo Jeryeak: Sing for the Joseon Dynasty" in Indonesia. Both events are part of the program 2025 Touring K-Arts.

By Jeon Misun

Photos = Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism  

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, in cooperation with the Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange, is promoting the program 2025 Touring K-Arts to support exhibitions and performances overseas by the nation's best in culture and arts.

This year's event has 41 programs spanning 15 concerts, 11 exhibitions and 15 lectures in 49 cities across 32 countries, up from 15 programs in 20 cities of 19 countries last year.

Highlights include "Jungle" by the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company to tour Sweden, the U.K. and Spain; the exhibition "Light of Korea, Jinju Silk Lanterns" in the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam featuring famous silk from Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do Province and "Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age 2025," a display organized by the Seoul-based Ilmin Museum of Art in Osaka and Tokyo, Japan, to mark the 60th anniversary of the normalization of bilateral relations.

This year's program has a new section for youth and emerging artists to allow them to go abroad and features a variety of Korean culture classes including those on Hansik (traditional cuisine), beauty and humanities.

The ministry said, "We will actively support young artists and private organizations to go abroad and continue discovering attractive K-Arts programs to lead the globalization of our culture and arts."

Classes on Korean Buddhist temple cuisine, which is a candidate for inscription as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, will be held in Thailand and Australia.

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