Ministry of Culture

The Department of Humanities and Publicationsof the Ministry of Culture is composed of four divisions. Its functions include the following:

• Fostering, planning, coordinating, guiding, and enhancing the nation's overall level of culture and humanities.
• Fostering the nation's literary talents and promoting their works.
• Planning, coordinating, rewarding, and promoting all policies in relation to preserving the nation's dynamic and diverse culture.
• Planning, researching, supporting, rewarding, and promoting the nation's legislation in relation to the publishing industry.
• Fostering new talents and promoting exchanges in relation to the publishing industry.
• Researching, gathering, coordinating, and publishing information in relation to the scope of work and standards of the publishing industry.
• Supervising and guiding the nation's corporations and foundations in relation to the publishing industry.
• Planning, researching, guiding, and supporting the nation's policies in relation to government publications; collecting and making publicly available information on publishing resources, research, and development.
• Utilizing and safekeeping cultural creative materials from the public sphere such as pictures, books, and historic data; promoting, selling, distributing, and soliciting feedback on government publications.
• All other developments related to humanities and the publishing industry.