Based on the belief that great art releases energy to change all of our lives, The Arts Council Korea was established to provide everyone to share the great pleasure of creation, and enjoy a value filled life by supporting businesses and activities for the promotion of culture and the arts.

The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation (KCAF) was founded in 1973 in accordance with the Culture and Arts Promotion Act, and it became the predecessor of the Arts Council which has in turn continued the activities and organization of the KCAF. The Arts Council Korea was launched in August 26, 2005 by establishing a more specialized and diversified support system for arts.

The policies of the Arts Council Korea are determined by an eleven member council, which makes decisions on general matters related to culture and art. The Council operates various kinds of culture and art support programs to enhance the viability, to improve the creativity, and to expand the productivity of the arts by making the creation of arts more financially rewarding.

The CI of The Arts Council Korea symbolizes the characteristics of art that provides value and dreams for human beings, creating infinite possibilities and supple strength, leaping stereotyped forms and orders. Five circles of various shapes and colors combine in a configuration that manifests the creativity of art, and the shape of art as it exists in the world.

Overlapping and scattering, vivid movement in dynamic balance signifies the creativity and diversity of art becoming blended in harmony and richness, together with an overall configuration implying that creators and appreciators are connected through art.