Realizing its vision by promoting science and technology and providing a wealth of cultural opportunities.

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  The LG Yonam Foundation, to which LG Sangnam Library belongs, was established in December 1969, by In-Hwoi Koo, the founder of LG Group. He acknowledged the demands of leaders in science and technology, and established the foundation to train younger generations to become the future leaders of Korea.
  The LG Yonam Foundation started realizing this vision by supporting the Jinju Municipal Yonam Library, and has been serving the public through nurturing education and culture since that time. Its achievements include scholarship, school concerts, and overseas-training programs for scholars.
  The LG Yonam Foundation operates and manages the LG Arts Center and LG Sangnam Library. It also carries out several other cultural and educational public services. In 2021 it will open LG Discovery Lab, a new institute for AI education.

• LG Art Center

  LG Yonam Foundation opened LG Arts Center, a superb cultural venue with the capacity of 1,103 seats, in March 2000. It received the USITT Architecture Merit Award in 2001, and also received the 4th Mecenat Award Grand Prize in 2003 because of its excellent building and management. LG Arts Center implements LG's philosophy by contributing to society through providing cultural opportunities. As a multi-purpose auditorium that can accommodate various fields of art, from music to dance to drama, LG Arts Center provides Korean audiences with variety of choices to have a superior experience of the performing arts of Korea and of everywhere else. It has a plan to move to Mogok area in 2022.

• LG Discovery Lab

  LG Discovery Lab is an educational institute established by LG Yonam Foundation especially for AI education. The Foundation will open LG Discovery Lab Busan in 2021, and LG Discovery Lab Seoul in 2022. In order to provide special opportunities for teens in AI education, LG Discovery Lab will practice “Learning by Doing” as an educational methodology by making teens actively participate and experience.