China's Inspiration Based On The Comparison Of South Korea And China Cultural Industries

Along with the ever growing globalization, the blending of economy and cultural have set new trend in world economic development. Economists throughout the world are claiming 21st century is going to be a cultural century, whoever dominates the cultural industry, dominates the world's economy. Developed countries are shifting their focus into cultural industry, and treat the cultural trade as a strategic trade development.One of the main reason that cultural trade have been developing rapidly, is because the ever changing world economic pattern. Back to the 70's and 80's, it was the manufacturing sector that dominated the world economy; when it got to the 90's, the core sector had changed to service industry; in the 21st century, the cultural industry will become the dominating sector in world economy. If China is going to dominate the world in 21st century, it should treat cultural sector as its core focus, develop it strategically, and grow its international cultural trade.South Korea and China have been friendly neighbors since long time ago, the diplomatic history could be trace back into ancient times, and these are the reason behind the similarity in both countries'cultural background. In recent decades, South Korea had made significant breakthrough in cultural trade development. Its cultural product accounts for 3.5% of the market share by 2004, it made South Korea into the 5 largest cultural trading countries, and it's able to maintain its market share by now. As an emerging country, South Korea's GDP never made into the top 10 of the world, but it's able to become the 5th largest cultural trading country, which shown the significant result of the development of cultural sector in South Korea. Although China has made progress in recent years, there is still a long way to chase compare with South Korea.This article will firstly sorting out the related concept, theory and current research in cultural trading; and then compare the current development of cultural trading, the structure of cultural trading product (including books, movies, audios, gaming industry, and comics), the strategic position that Cultural Industry stands in the country, regulations to cultural industry, funding mechanism of cultural industry, talent training in cultural industry, etc in both countries, and to conclude a winning strategy that will inspire China's cultural sector development, and it will point out a series of suggestions that will be helpful to China's development of cultural sector: including tailor-made strategy development proposal for China's cultural sector development, fine tune the regulation in cultural sector, expanding the channel for cultural (?)tor to attract capital and investment, constructing a fully functional human resources t(?)ning system, enhancing the technology and creativity, etc.