The Swedish African Museurn Program (Samp) is a network of museurns, initiated by the ICOM-Sweden in 1984, that facilitates the development of museurns in their local communities. There has been a nurnber of projects and programs that promote the exchange of ideas, informations and experiences among Swedish and African museurns for more than 20 years. Through these projects and programs, much focus is put on how museurns are able to carry out sustainable programs that contribute to the regional social development. ALAS, an acronym for Asia, Latin Arnerica, Africa and Sweden, is a branch network of Samp that started in 2002. ALAS started with the objective of spreading Samp s existing museurn programs and management developing system. Currently, there are a total of 19 museums in the ALAS network. These museums are actively participating in projects which focus on the development of museurns and its communities The Samp/ALAS project aims to increase the management skills of smaller museurns that are in regions where museurns are not well developed or its activities are not fully appreciated by its communities. The Iron Museum has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Samp/ ALAS network. From 2005 to 2007, the museurn has carried out a project on museurn marketing strategies with the museums from the Dominican Republic and Zambia. On Feb 10, 2007, with a year s preparation, the field tests were carried out with the elementary school students and teachers of Eurnsung-gun, the staffs of Iron Museurn, the local representatives from participating museurns and a Samp/ ALAS coordinator. Concurrent with the field test. a final workshop was held to evaluate project developments and marketing schemes among the project team members. The budget for the project was funded by Samp/ALAS and participating museums also contributed. The budget was based on each activities for the project document and was carefully monitored by the Samp/ALAS. The Samp/ ALAS’ approach is the most applicable methodology for the growth and development of museums in Korea. Individual museums would look past differences in sizes. organizational structures. regions and specialties in collections to work towards a unified goal. Further benefiting the community which they want to serve by planning projects together: and through this process reeducate museum professionals. research new administrative and managemental methods. and become more disciplined on acquiring and putting to good use endowments and other such methods of assistance . For example. the Ministry of Culture and Thurism in Korea is bolstered by funds from the Lotto lottery system and this sort of short-term financial aid is important. but currently Korea lacks the legislative support and long-term funding. It is imperative that museums realize the given social conditions to create a system (s) to efficiently utilize the sociocultural assets 밍ven to them. From this point small scale museums or related institutions may settle on a sin밍e characteristic that is appropriate and through which they can begin these such pr이l ects and come together in a forum to share their experiences and newfound knowledge on museum practices to ensure the sustainability.