Company Introduction

Founded in 1986, the Seoul Performing Arts Company is a national and public art company affiliated to Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. After the exchange of performances by North and South Korean art companies in 1985, the Company was first established as the 88 Seoul Performing Arts Company on August 1, 1986 in an attempt to recover the two Korea’s cultural homogeneity, to engage in inter-Korean exchange of the arts and culture and to serve as a large, comprehensive art company serving Korea’s major events. The Company then became an independent foundation affiliated to the Ministry of Culture in 1990. Boasting its history and tradition of over 30 years, the Company has produced high-quality creative musicals that preserve and develop the value of tradition with strong content encompassing Korea’s history and persons and that communicate with today’s audience. The Company is composed of chairman of the board Hee-seong Yu, artistic director Ho-seong Kwon, 16 members of the secretariat and 39 artists.