The K-Arts School of Drama opened in 1994 to foster creative professional theatre artists. As the only national drama school in Korea, the School offers four-year undergraduate programs (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and two or three-year graduate programs (Master of Fine Arts). The School has five departments: playwriting (including narrative writing major), stage design, acting, directing, and theatre studies (including theatre management major) for both bachelors and graduate programs. Theatre for the Young major is only offered within the graduate program.

To provide the best professional training in the practice and theory of theatre, the School established practice-focused curriculum and has collaborated with renowned domestic and international theatres on various projects. The School's innovative experiments have changed the paradigm of Korean theater education. Today, our graduates are not only leading Korean theatre but also being well-recognized globally.

The two pillars of theatre are the liveness and the direct experience. However, today's mode of communication is ever changing. Particularly, the development of new media has posed a challenge to theater artists. To adequately prepare and take advantage of the fast-changing theatrical environment, at K-Arts School of Drama, students are encouraged to explore interdisciplinary studies. While continuing to cultivate traditional disciplines, the School is dedicated to finding new theatrical aesthetics to better communicate with the future generation of audience, through projects around convergence of high technology and theater.

Our mission is to foster theatre artists who can raise critical and fundamental questions for humans and our society. We expect our educational program to support students to become leaders taking artistic strides towards a better world, equipped with critical thinking and theatrical imagination.