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A coalition of progressive cultural organizations held a performance in protest of the now scrapped grand canal project before the inauguration of the presidential transition committee of the incumbent administration. They said in the performance, “The project will destroy the country’s history and culture.” To this, the then Culture Ministry sarcastically said, “Such progressive organizations kept mum when the controversy arose that the original Sejong City plan presented by former President Roh Moo-hyun would destroy cultural assets.” Kim Jeong-heon, who led the coalition from 1999 to 2007, was named chairman of Arts Council Korea at the end of the Roh Moo-hyun administration. It is no secret in the artistic and cultural circle that Culture Action and the higher-ranking organization Korean People Artist Federation had a role in replacing Kim Byeong-ik, the first chairman of the council, with Kim Jeong-heon. This was to take control of the domestic cultural community after the change of government.

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