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Dept. of Humanities & Publications

Dept. of Humanities & Publications

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.