CTRI

Culture Technology Research Institute (CTRI) is established and operated to foster interdisciplinary research in the field of Culture Technology. It started as a Culture Technology Research Center in 2006, renamed as a Culture Technology Research Institute in 2012, and reorganized its operation system focusing on its research center in 2020. A vision and a role of the CTRI is to lead creating global values in the cultural industry and ‘contribute to happiness and prosperity of mankind’ through ‘CT R&D interdisciplinary research that answers questions’. As for now, CTRI is composed of a total of three research centers, including the Sumi Jo Performing Arts Research Center, Art & Technology Center, Post Metaverse Research Center. Roughly twenty faculty members, ten researchers, and one hundred and thirty graduate students have been participating in various interdisciplinary researches.

  • Vision and Role
    • Leading global value creation in the cultural industry and contributing to the happiness and prosperity of mankind
    • Establishment and operation of an open industry-academic interdisciplinary research platform to secure new growth engines in the cultural industry
    • Performing pace-setting CT R&D by pioneering and preoccupying a new cultural industry in U-tact era
  • Strategy
    • Selecting core fields reflecting future demands of the cultural industry and conducting interdisciplinary research focused on the research center
    • Conducting interdisciplinary research focusing on a mid to long term convergence research plan to “answer questions,” led by full-time researchers
    • Early acquisition of proprietary CT technology and expansion of cultural industry fields through open industry-academic cooperation
  • History
    • May 2006

      Establishment of
      Culture Technology
      Research Center

      Director
      WOHN Kwangyun

    • Oct 2012

      Approval of
      establishment of
      Culture Technology
      Research Institute

    • Dec 2012

      Renamed

      Director
      LEE Dongman

    • May 2016

      Reorganization

      Director
      NOH Junyong

    • Sep 2020

      Reorganization
      focused on
      research center

      Director
      WOO Woontack

    • Sep 2022

      Director
      LEE Sung-Hee

  • Organization
    • CTRI
      • Sumi Jo Performing Arts Research Center
      • Art & Technology Center
      • Post Metaverse Research Center