Popular Culture and Arts Planning Business Registration Requirements and Documents

Procedure

Procedure

1. 01

   1. Check whether registration is required — Any individual business or corporation that provides or arranges the services of popular culture artists, or trains, coaches or counsels them for that purpose, must register as a popular culture and arts planning business. Managing affiliated entertainers, arranging appearances and developing trainees fall under this. The registration duty in Article 26 applies to the planning business, so a business that only produces broadcast content or records is considered separately from this registration.

2. 02

   2. Meet the experience or training requirement — The applicant must have 2 or more years of experience in the popular culture and arts planning business or have completed a related training course at a designated institution, and for a corporation it is enough that at least 1 officer meets this requirement. Training institutions are schools under the Higher Education Act, lifelong education institutions, the Korea Creative Content Agency, and institutions or organizations announced by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Experience is shown by documents proving income earned in this business, and experience that income records cannot prove is shown by a certificate of experience issued by an announced institution or organization.

3. 03

   3. Secure an office and check disqualifications — Secure a main office and, if leased, prepare proof of the right to use it such as a copy of the lease. Minors, persons under adult or limited guardianship, undischarged bankrupts, persons sentenced to a fine or heavier punishment for violating this Act, crimes of kidnapping, inducement or human trafficking under the Criminal Act, the Act on the Punishment of Arranging Commercial Sex Acts, the Act on the Protection of Children and Youth against Sex Offenses, the Act on the Regulation of Amusement Businesses Affecting Public Morals, or child abuse crimes, where 3 years have not passed, and persons whose registration was revoked less than 3 years ago may not run or work in this business. A corporation also checks whether any officer is disqualified.

4. 04

   4. File the registration application with the city or province — Enter the planning field on the popular culture and arts planning business registration application (Enforcement Rule, Form No. 1) and file it with the metropolitan city or province, attaching proof of experience or training and of the right to use the office. The official checks the building register, corporate register and business registration certificate through shared administrative information, and if you do not consent to the business registration check you attach it yourself. The processing period is 15 days, the fee is 25,000 won, and a registration certificate is issued once the requirements are met.

5. 05

   5. Training and change registration after registration — A registered planning business must complete 6 hours of training in the first session after registration and 3 hours every year thereafter, and must arrange for its affiliated artists to receive 1 hour of sex education and sexual violence prevention training every year. If the representative's name, officers other than the representative, the main office location or the trade name changes, apply for change registration within 30 days of the change, with a fee of 15,000 won. Transfers, mergers and inheritance of the business require a business succession report, and suspension, closure and resumption are reported separately.

Filing route

Filing route

Deadlines & processing notes

Deadlines & processing notes

Fees & official charges

Fees & official charges

Included in the basic fee — Initial document review, required-document guidance, basic form preparation, one filing support and one ordinary supplement.

Conditional success fee — For this service, any conditional success fee may be separately agreed within the lawful service scope and stated in a written engagement agreement. No outcome is guaranteed.

Displayed amounts are starting estimates, not statutory or standard rates. The final fee is confirmed after consultation and document review in the engagement agreement. Government fees and actual expenses may change.

Basic documents

Basic documents

Failing to apply for change registration within 30 days can lead to a fine for negligence of up to 5,000,000 won and is grounds for a business suspension of up to 6 months, so apply promptly when the representative, officers, office or trade name changes. Lending your registration certificate or trade name to another person can lead to a fine for negligence of up to 10,000,000 won, and failing to replace a disqualified officer within 3 months is grounds for revocation of registration.