The Seoul e-culture festival, the first public event to celebrate the country's IT culture, will make its debut in Seoul Plaza, City Hall for two days on July 7 and 8. E-culture aims to bring the usual offline activities of arts and other performances into the online scene to suggest a whole new way of experiencing of cultural activities.
The festival is jointly hosted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, University of Seoul and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea Cultural Contents Agency and IT-related businesses such as local search engine giant Daum.
In line with the latest IT trend that encourages users to become creators of popular culture thanks to various online devices, the five themes of the festival will be digital photography, digital music, digital design, user-created content (UCC – e.g. Youtube videos) and e-sports.