SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean ancient history book, traditional women’s poetry and records of a massive oil spill have been added to the regional list of the UNESCO Memory of the World program. The Cultural Heritage Administration said “Samguk-yusa” (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) and two other candidates from the country [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The traditional Korean mask dance, or “talchum” in Korean, is almost certain to be added to UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. According to the homepage of UNESCO on Tuesday, “Talchum, Mask Dance Drama in the Republic of Korea” was recommended for inscription on the list by a subpanel of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The southwestern provincial county of Wando was designated Wednesday as a UNESCO biosphere reserve, the environment ministry said. The designation was decided during an International Coordinating Council session of the 33th UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Program currently under way in Nigeria via virtual links, the ministry said in [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tidal flats have been officially inscribed as a UNESCO world natural heritage despite receiving a deferral in a preliminary review, cultural heritage authorities said Monday. Seoul made a push to register “getbol,” or “Korean tidal flats,” on UNESCO’s world heritage list in the 44th session of the [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A UNESCO committee on Thursday called for Japan to keep its promise to honor forced labor victims at an information center on industrial revolution sites registered on the World Heritage list. In a virtual session, the World Heritage Committee (WHC) adopted a resolution stating Japan’s failure to provide sufficient [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency are co-hosting ‘Korea: Cubically Imagined,’ an exhibition held at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) headquarters in Paris that began on July 6. The exhibition showcases BTS’s video performance of “BTS Map Of [...]
YANGSAN, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of Buddha donated by India has been enshrined at Tongdo Temple, a South Korean Buddhist temple listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the temple said Monday. The enshrinement ceremony was held on Sunday at the temple in Yangsan, about 420 kilometers southeast of Seoul, attended by [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul museum will hold an exhibition next month on the UNESCO-listed Czech tradition of puppetry, with more than 150 puppets and other items on display. “Secrets of Wooden Puppets – Czech Marionettes” will open at the Seoul Museum of History on June 4 in association with the Chrudim [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s lantern lighting festival, a springtime event held to celebrate Buddha’s birthday, has been officially inscribed as intangible cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO, the government said Wednesday. The decision was made during the 15th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan remains negligent in carrying out UNESCO recommendations that the country offer correct accounts of wartime forced labor when describing the history of industrial sites recognized as World Heritage, an official said Friday. When the 23 Meiji-era industrial sites won the World Heritage recognition in 2015, Japan promised to [...]