2011-07-21

Korea Arts Management workforce employment status and job satisfaction

According to a research conducted by Korea Arts Management Service and Korea Labor Institute in year 2008, professionals working at arts management get job satisfaction from psychological reward and high expectation about future prospects despite of their hard working conditions regarding long working hours, low income, poor welfare and services for employees, and conditions of employment .

In the view of 'Arts Management' as an occupation, there is a need to examine if Arts Management -the Arts Management here will be limited to the workforce working in planning services- is included in the Korean Standard Classification of Occupations(KSCO), and the fact is that the jobs that are responsible for Planning Management isn't yet identified as independent occupations according to KSCO. This fact may reflect the decision that this kind of jobs are unique and isn't universal enough to be considered as a candidate for independent occupation according to KSCO.

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Written by Seung Yeol YEE _ Korea Labor Institute