President Park Geun-hye named a former director of Asia’s largest film festival to lead a presidential advisory panel on cultural prosperity, her office announced Friday.

Kim Dong-ho, 75, dean of the Graduate School of Cinematic Content at Dankook University, will lead the newly established committee responsible for drawing up national strategies and policies on cultural prosperity as well as promoting public-private partnerships in the cultural sector, senior presidential press secretary Lee Jung-hyun said.

Cultural prosperity is one of four administrative goals set forth by the Park government, along with economic revival, people’s happiness and peaceful reunification of South and North Korea.

Kim has been recognized for his contributions to the birth and development of Asia’s largest film festival, the Busan International Film Festival, and also served as vice culture minister in 1992.

The 20-person committee will also include Culture Minister Yoo Jin-ryong as an ex officio member and civilian experts from various cultural fields, including violinist Chung Kyung-wha, actor Ahn Sung-ki and Peter Bartholomew, an American businessman known for his campaign to preserve traditional Korean houses, called hanok. (Yonhap News)