A Development Plan of Research Projects of the Busan National Gugak Center - Focusing on Researching and Discovering Local Traditional Arts -

Abstract

The Busan National Gugak Center should utilize its strengths as an institution to establish and implement long-term plans for research projects. This paper discusses the Busan National Gugak Center's development plans for research projects of related to the research and discovery of local traditional arts, emphasizing three aspects of 'examination in connection with existing research projects', 'expansion of the target area and period', and 'application of the perspectives of dissemination and assimilation'. First, it is necessary to link with existing research projects. As a research conducted by an institution, it will not only help maintain a certain direction, but will create comprehensive and large-scale research results by organically linking individual works of researching and discovering local traditional arts. As an example, this paper proposes a study that can be linked to the contents of the 'Yeongnam Dance Terminology Manual,' the data included in the results of the project based on the oral records of individual artists. Second, the expansion of the target area and period implies to break down the existing regional boundaries which relied on artists, intangible cultural heritages, and recording materials based in Busan and Yeongnam. If the target area to examine is expanded to the whole country and overseas for new data that has not been collected before, it can overcome the limitation that research projects have mainly focused on the late 20th century. Third, this study proposes to investigate the cultural identity of Busan and Yeongnam regions through the application of the perspectives of dissemination and assimilation. When viewed from a vertical and horizontal perspective in the context of the development of art history, Korea's local traditional arts have a relationship with other art items in the same region or with similar art items in other regions in the process of forming and developing overlapping activities of each artist. In other words, 'traditional art of Busan' or 'traditional art of Yeongnam' can be said to have local characteristics in the process of dissemination and assimilation, and in order to discover this, it is necessary to apply the perspective of dissemination and assimilation.