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01.City of Arts
- Source of diverse creative contents
- As a gathering point of southern province cultures, has abundant traditional cultures such as lyric literatures, Goryeo celadon, Chinese paintings of Southern School, Pansori, folksy and delicious southern provincial foods, etc.
- Have many groups of representative artists in the modern and contemporary painters, and the reputations followed by holding world class cutural events such as Gwangju Biennale, design biennale, etc.
02.City of Justice
- Cultural autonomy and openness, and the foundation of Asian connection
- The spirit of liberty inherent in Gwangju region such as Gwangju Students Movement, 5·18 Gwangju Democratization Movement, etc provides the soil having autonomy and openness, where the culture and arts can grow up.
- haring the bitterness of colony, tyranny poverty with Asia, the spirits of democracy, human rights and the peace in Gwangju, which overcome with the strengths of the citizens, provides the foundation to build the partner relationship of trust
03.City of Education
- The Core of cultural competitiveness as well as securing creative manpower
- he manpower of the humanity, culture and arts are concentrated around the colleges, institutes, civic groups
- Abundant potential human resources such as high college entrance rate, lots of information manpower, lots of departments related to culture and industry, etc.