📰 [Arirang Culture Connect | Seoul, 12 November 2025]

Arirang Culture Connect, the global cultural media initiative operated by Culture Masters, proudly announces the launch of its new editorial division, “Secret of Creativity.”
This global humanities platform explores how creativity emerges not only from culture and emotion, but also from technology, leadership, collective intelligence, and the strategic challenges that shape civilizations.

Its inaugural series, “From Pansori to Kedehun – The Korean Imagination,” examines how Korea transformed artistic traditions, industrial innovation, and geopolitical adversity into a unified creative intelligence capable of influencing the world.

🌏 Creativity as a Global Dialogue

“Secret of Creativity” is envisioned as a worldwide forum connecting diverse creative traditions—from African oral storytelling and Middle Eastern philosophy to European artistic heritage and East Asian aesthetics.

The series begins with Korea, a nation that:

endured centuries of geopolitical pressure between great powers,

rebuilt itself from colonization, war, and division,

became a global leader in culture, democracy, technology, and advanced industry, and

developed a distinctive creativity forged from resilience and collective intelligence.

“Creativity is the most profound form of cultural dialogue,” said Dr. SeongYong Park, President of Culture Masters.
“Through Kedehun—a concept uniting Korean empathy, creative wisdom, and humanity—we aim to present Korea not merely as a success story, but as a philosophical model for global imagination and resilience.”

🎬 Why Is Korea So Strong? : From Pansori to Kedehun – The Power of Korean Creativity

The term Kedehun (케데헌) expresses Korea’s unique blend of storytelling, emotional depth, structural intelligence, and ethical imagination.

This series reveals that Korean creativity extends far beyond the cultural realm into:

· strategic creativity developed under constant geopolitical tension,

· economic and industrial creativity, from semiconductors to shipbuilding and AI,

· defense innovation, shaped by national survival and technological autonomy, and

· collective intelligence, expressed in education, organizations, and civic mobilization.

From the breath of pansori singers to the cinematic universes of Parasite, from Hangul’s structural elegance to Korea’s rise in technology and defense, the series illuminates how Korea built its creative DNA by turning constraint into innovation and vulnerability into power.

🎯 Key Themes Include:

▷ The Korean Paradox – Small Nation, Remakable Creativity
▷ Hangul and the Architecture of Thought
▷ Han and Heung – Emotional Energy in Korean Culture
▷ Discipline and Dream: Inside the K-Pop Ecosystem
▷ Storytelling Power – From Pansori to Kedehun
▷ Heritage as Creative Intelligence
▷ Collective Intelligence and Korean Leadership
▷ From K-Culture to Global Ethics

Each article blends cultural philosophy, historical insight, industrial analysis, and geopolitical reflection—tracing how Korea became one of the world’s most creative civilizations.

🧭 Editorial Vision

Main Category: Secret of Creativity
Sub-Series: From Pansori to Kedehun – The Korean Imagination
Publisher: Arirang Culture Connect (Culture Masters & Advocacy Alliance for Culture Masters)
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. SeongYong Park
Language Policy: English main version with Korean translations

This section embodies Culture Masters’ mission to connect heritage and innovation and to build a global network of creative civilizations.
It proposes Korea not just as a cultural success, but as a nation that forged a new model of creative intelligence through adversity and imagination.

🌍 Global Expansion and Participation

Following the Korean launch, Secret of Creativity will open to international contributors, encouraging thought leaders from around the world to share how creativity manifests in their own cultural contexts — from Nairobi’s oral traditions to Lisbon’s maritime art and Kyoto’s aesthetics of subtlety.

All contributions will appear on Arirang Culture Connect, and selected features will be adapted into CM+TV video essays and ichmasters.org educational programs under the banner “The Creative DNA of Humanity.”

“The Secret of Creativity is not confined to any one nation,”
added Dr. Park.
“It is the ongoing story of how cultures, through imagination, create meaning and hope for the world.”

※ This article is presented in collaboration with Advocacy Alliance for Culture Masters (Non-profit org.).

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