Korea Heritage Service Vows to Protect Jongmyo Shrine After Court Upholds Seoul Development Plan SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s cultural heritage authority pledged Thursday to prevent Seoul’s Jongmyo Shrine from losing its UNESCO World Heritage status following a Supreme Court ruling that upheld a city ordinance easing development restrictions near the site. The [...]
ULSAN, South Korea, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A pair of prehistoric rock art sites in Ulsan, revered for capturing scenes of early Korean life, are set to join UNESCO’s World Heritage list following a key recommendation from the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). ICOMOS, the official advisory body to the UNESCO World Heritage [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has been elected to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for a four-year term through 2027, officials here said Thursday, marking the country’s fourth such election as a member of the committee. Seoul regained the membership at the 24th session of the General Assembly of the States Parties [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The Gaya Tumuli, which consists of seven tomb clusters dating back to Korea’s ancient Gaya confederacy, will be added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. The decision was made during the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Riyadh on Sunday (Saudi local time). The committee said the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The already fraught ties between South Korea and Japan were dealt yet another setback Friday when Tokyo plowed ahead with the recommendation of a former mine linked to wartime forced labor as a UNESCO World Heritage candidate despite Seoul’s objections. After weeks of deliberation, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida [...]
JEJU, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The 27th Seongsan Sunrise Festival will kick off next week on Jeju Island’s Seongsan Ilchulbong (Sunrise) Peak, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the southern resort island’s most famous geographical features, organizers said Thursday. The annual Seongsan Sunrise Festival will take place around the Seongsan peak area [...]
SUWON, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Gyeonggi Province announced yesterday that it was planning to allocate 19.63 billion won to be used to transform Namhansanseong Fortress, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a major tourist attraction by 2022. The province is expected to hold a yearly “cultural festival” in October starting next year, and will [...]
GOCHANG, South Korea, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean peninsula boasts the world’s largest concentration of dolmens – megalithic tombs often in the form of two or more vertical stones supporting a horizontal capstone. The megalithic culture is believed to have emerged on the peninsula in the Neolithic age, and flourished into the Bronze [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Seonjeongneung is located in Gangnam’s Samseong-Dong, one of the city’s busiest business districts. It is a 220,000-square-meter city park featuring 500-year-old burial grounds of two kings and a queen from the Joseon Dynasty. At the westernmost end of the park is the tomb of the King Seonjong (1457 – [...]
JEJU, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Caves and geological features of volcanoes on Jeju Island will be put up as candidates for registration as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The Jeju World Natural Heritage Center revealed on Tuesday, July 5, that it selected Geomunoreum’s upstream caves Utsanjeon, Bukoreum, Daerim, and Socheon Cave in Hallim-eup as candidates. For [...]