Review of Intangible Heritage Policy Branch Point from the Viewpoint of Beneficiaries: Focusing on the 1960s\textasciitilde1980s

Korea’s cultural property protection and promotion policy was created in the 1960s with reference to Japanese institutions. Unlike tangible cultural properties, which had already been subject to policy during the Japanese colonial period, the intangible cultural heritage area was protected only through the Cultural Properties Protection Act of 1962. The Culture and Arts Promotion Act, which appeared in 1972, is another law that has influenced the intangible heritage field. If the Cultural Properties Protection Act was focused on ‘protection’, the Culture and Arts Promotion Act concentrated on ‘promotion’. The existing intangible heritage policy research mainly deals with the protection law. They examined the process of policy change based on the enactment and revision of the protection law. However, the enactment of a new legal system and the implementation of new projects do not coincide in time. It is because there are relatively many systems that are not supported by budget and administration. The cases of the intangible heritage system are not rare like that also. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the process of policy change from the perspective of the beneficiary in order to understand the effect and significance of a specific policy in detail. This approach may be rather detrimental to clear timing. However, it can be useful to look over the life of the artists as an object of individual policy or to look into the system from the viewpoint of a region other than the center.