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South Korea's culture ministry announced on Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement with Hong Kong to expand and bolster exchanges between their entertainment fields, according to China Entertainment News.
The memorandum of agreement, signed on Wednesday by Kim Jong-deok, minister of South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and Gregoy So, secretary of Hong Kong's Commerce and Economic Development, encompasses TV, film, design, games and advertising.
The deal is geared toward enhancing each territory's entertainment industry through a continuous exchange of knowledge and manpower as well as elevating knowledge and understanding of it via educational projects and other such events.
"The creative industry is central to providing job opportunities and promoting a creative economy amid Korea's effrots to make economic innovations," Kim said.
"I believe Korea and Hong Kong can together pave the way for future growth," the official said.
Cooperation in culture between the two territories are not a new happening. Film producers from Hong Kong and South Korea created the film "Love with an Alien" in 1953, the first such project between creatives from the two places.
The film was nowhere to be found for some time, until the Korean Film Archive discovered a copy of it in 2012 at the Hong Kong Film Archive.
