2025 PAMS(Performing Arts Market in Seoul) is the largest platform for international circulation of performing arts in Korea. Hosted and organized by KAMS(Korea Arts Management Service), PAMS supports Korean performing arts works and groups, allowing them to connect with diverse audiences across Korea and around the world while enabling them to continue their creative activities sustainably. 

Artists engage in artistic expressions that combine new topics & technologies and present their experiments to the world, expanding the scope of art.
Art companies can focus on their essence through various supports and expand their business by meeting various artists, companies, & technologies.
Artists & art companies meet to pursue collaboration and form new art, and new business based on Art Korea Lab's facilities/infrastructure.

Van Cleef & Arpels' close ties with the world of dance date back to the 1920s. This relationship grew stronger in 2020 with the launch of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, a program supporting contemporary dance. Developed in collaboration with international partners, this initiative reflects the Maison's commitment to supporting choreographic heritage, nurturing contemporary creation and bringing this artistic universe to the widest possible audience.
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and Seoul Performing Arts Festival present a dance festival.
From October 16 to November 8, 2025, a diverse range of global dance works will be presented throughout Seoul. Reflecting the values of creation, transmission and education that have driven Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels since its launch, the festival will present works that have made their mark on the history of contemporary dance alongside recent works. It will also offer workshops and masterclasses for both professional and amateur dancers.

SFAC Theater QUAD is a black box venue designed with a flexible layout, allowing the stage and seating arrangements to be adapted freely according to the needs of each performance. This versatility embodies the theater’s commitment to transcending conventional genre and format boundaries, fostering innovative and experimental artistic practices.

As a space that aesthetically embodies contemporary values, QUAD serves as a dynamic platform where artists and audiences engage in open dialogue, exploring new art forms and challenging fixed artistic processes. It supports experimental performing arts that address current societal issues without being confined to traditional theatrical structures.

QUAD aspires to be a living space where art breathes freely, facilitating meaningful exchange between creators and viewers. It is committed to providing a safe environment for artistic creation and an inclusive experience for all audiences, while striving toward a sustainable future for the performing arts.

National Asian Culture Center (ACC) is an international arts and cultural exchange organization that produces new, future-oriented results through the convergence of Asia’s past and present arts and culture with innovative ideas and beliefs. Having the context of artistically sublimating the significance of the May 18th Democratic Movement’s human rights and peace as its point of departure, the ACC, which opened in November 2015, is a Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism–affiliated institution established for the advancement of mutual understanding and cooperative growth with different Asian countries through exchange, education, research, and other efforts with regard to Asian culture.

The ACC plays the role of an integrated platform for participants from Asia and the rest of the world to freely unite and exchange their ideas while transcending boundaries in carrying out the steps of research, creation, and production. At the ACC, diverse and dynamic programs (exhibitions, performances, education, festivals, and other events) using collected research data, resources, etc., are held year-round with the creative output of experts from various fields who have exchanged their creativity and ingenuity with one another.

The Asia Pacific Festivals Connection(APFC) is a network with a group of festivals, venues and organizations of performing arts in the Asia-Pacific region dedicated to collaborating with each other in order to increase the mobility and/or circulation of Asia-Pacific arts works and artists.
Through co-commissioning and co-producing, APFC supports Asian and Pacific artists and fosters active exchange among members. By promoting such cooperation, APFC aims to build an organic and sustainable performing arts ecology within the Asia-Pacific region.

Asian Playwright & Script Focus: 2025–2026 Asia and Asian Diaspora In line with the Seoul Performing Arts Festival’s curatorial direction of “Locality and Translocality,” this global collaboration project delves into contemporary Asian new writings and diasporic narratives. Focusing on playwrights from Asia and the Asian diaspora whose work has been shaped by migration prompted by digitalization and globalization, the project explores emerging dramaturgical currents and narrative tendencies across the region. Through collaboration with major Asian festivals and organization of performing arts, the initiative aims to foster new opportunities for playwright discovery, production, and presentation—promoting dynamic exchange within the broader Asian performing arts ecology.

Established in 2010, the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company (KNCDC) is Korea's only national contemporary dance company. Through dance created in collaboration with artists with exceptional creative capacities, KNCDC aspires to create Korean contemporary dance which tells stories of history, society and daily lives of contemporaneity that can be appreciated across regions and by all generations.
KNCDC is solidifying its identity as a dance company through a stage performed by artistic directors and dancers. Based on this, KNCDC intends to introduce its unique colors to various regions in Korea and various countries abroad.
As an organization that specializes in creation of new productions, KNCDC seeks to realise diverse contemporary values in dance performances. KNCDC continues to work to provide the best environment for dance where the artists and audience can grow together. And as a platform where artists and audiences meet, the company hopes to form a healthy ecosystem where diverse values can coexist. Moreover, KNCDC plans to enrich the lives of citizens through their experiences with dance at close proximity in their day to day life.