Information is the first step towards mutual understanding and collaboration. TheApro has played an important part in presenting Korean performing arts to the world. I have enjoyed reading TheApro in the past and looking forward to reading it again! Congratulations on reviving this important initiative, connecting Korea and Asia to the world. Wishing the newly minted TheApro all the very best!

Congratulations on the renewal of TheApro!It will be of great help to Korean artists who want to go out to global stages, and I’m sure that it will be a good window for international experts who want to invite Korean performing artists. Cultural and artistic experts abroad are very envious of this kind of Korea’s advanced system. Over the past 10 years, Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) has built up its continuous support, responsibility, and system construction. This is a good example in the Asian arts scene. Going global cannot be the answer to all artistic activities, but opportunities can form experience, and experience can serve as a starting point for change and innovation. No matter how many good books I have, they cannot be mine if I don’t read and study them. Artists, planners, and performing arts-related organizations that look forward to finding opportunities to perform abroad should actively communicate and share information to utilize this well-made platform, TheApro.I’m now bookmarking TheApro. I hope that all its visitors see the enthusiasm, hope, and joy of Korean artists here. I cheer for all of you.

As a person who opened TheApro with all my enthusiasm and published it as a webzine format, I felt sorry to see the closing of TheApro. I hope that TheApro, which is reopened powerfully, forms a great basis for a better understanding of different regions, cultures and ideas rather than focusing too much on Korean performing artists’ going global, their promotion and concrete results. I also hope that the online platform acts as a stimulus leading us to an unknown world which is still large.

This is a great piece of news to learn that TheApro will be back online: writings, sharing of thoughts and research on contemporary performing arts, are particularly needed in Asia and worldwide to help practices to be better contextualised, understood and of course staged. Sharing online resource in our sector is key as much as curating adapted online contents and knowledge, both from a practical and research perspective.