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"Securing leadership in the global cultural market by boosting Korea's content industry." That's the Lee Jae Myung administration's cultural policy goal for its five-year term. By fostering and strengthening the K-content industry, the administration aims to build a 217 billion U.S. dollar K-culture market, generate 36 billion dollars in related exports, and attract 30 million inbound tourists. The government will invest over 7 billion dollars in policy financing to lay the groundwork for content industry growth and deliver on its targets.

Two major events will take place in central Seoul this Friday, marking the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japan.

At 10 a.m., a Liberation Day commemorative ceremony will be held at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts with some 2,500 attendees, including bereaved families of independence activists.

At 8 p.m., President Lee's inauguration ceremony will take place at Gwanghwamun Square, bringing together 3,500 invited citizens, key state officials, and representatives from various sectors.

In a special tribute, 80 citizen representatives will present President Lee with a letter of appointment.

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art has opened an exhibition titled "Landscapes of Homeland and Longing," which explores the meaning of "land" through modern and contemporary landscape paintings.

Held to commemorate the 80th anniversary of liberation, the exhibition features over 200 works by 75 artists, including Kim Whan-ki and Lee Jung-seob, alongside over 50 archival pieces.

It reflects on the sentiment of "homeland" held in the hearts of Koreans who experienced the Japanese colonial era, Liberation, the Korean War, and the waves of industrialization.

It runs through November 9 at MMCA's Deoksugung branch.

Also marking the 80th anniversary of Liberation, Arirang TV has produced a video that brings independence activists, once frozen in black-and-white photographs, vividly to life using AI technology.

The video features Korean independence heroes such as Yu Gwan-sun, Kim Gu, Ahn Jung-geun, and Kim Maria, highlighting their achievements while showing their never-before-seen radiant smiles.

It captures scenes of the activists laughing, clapping, and blowing out candles on an 80th-anniversary cake, moments that give viewers an emotional connection to history.

Arirang TV hopes the video will encourage reflection on their noble sacrifices and the true meaning of liberation.

That's all from me. Stay tuned to the Kulture Wave.