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For the success of the Sea Art Festival 2013, opening on September 14, local businesses started offering sponsorships one after another.

Hanjin Shipping (President Young-Min Kim) will sponsor the Sea Art Festival 2013, jointly conceived by the Busan Biennale Organizing Committee (Chairman Nam-Sik Hur) and Busan, for the success of the event, providing 11 shipping containers, which will be used in production of artworks and supporting facilities.

Hanjin Shipping is Korea's largest and one of the world’s top ten shipping container carrier operating some 60 liner and tramper services around the globe, transporting over 100 million tons of cargo annually with its fleet consisting some 200 containerships, bulk and LNG carriers, as well as operating Gamcheon Terminal. The company has supported various local events including the Busan Biennale and Family Love Walkathon. For the Busan Biennale Sea Art Festival 2008, the company contributed by providing 10 shipping containers to be used as moving galleries around the city, narrowing the distance between contemporary art and the general public.

8 among the 11 containers supplied by Hanjin Shipping will be used in the making of works by Craig Costello (born in 1972), a famous street artist from the United States. Costello is known for coloring over exteriors of various structures such as buildings, vehicles, and postboxes commonly found in a city, and by dripping paint on surfaces of found structures, he expresses an evolvement in his urban roots. Taking various objects as his subjects, Costello redefines the objects by implementing dripping technique, raising graffiti to the realm of high art. At the Sea Art Festival 2013, shipping containers will be used as a material that symbolizes logistics and ports, accounting the idiosyncrasies of Busan. The rest of the containers will be installed at the Central Fountain Square at Sondo Beach and utilized as a complex providing supporting programs and facilities for visitors, such as the Sea Art Salon (rest area), the on-site Public Relations Hall, and the Various Arts Lab.

The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee sees corporate sponsorships offered to the Sea Art Festival as encouraging signs, indicating its rising status, and as the sponsorships have prompted increase in the quality of the event, the Organizing Committee plans to continue on projects that can well resonate the corporates’ contributions to society, and convey their efforts to audiences and the general public.