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Korea opens its first Unesco World Heritage Committee in Busan with calls for peace and cooperation

At the 10-day Busan session, delegates from 196 countries will review heritage sites as Korea highlights culture’s role in fostering dialogue, solidarity and peace.

2026.7.19

North Korea’s Mount Kumgang named Unesco World Heritage site

Mount Kumgang in North Korea is officially a Unesco World Heritage site, the international agency announced Sunday.

2025.7.13

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Welcoming spring

Chinese characters that welcome spring and wish good fortune are posted at a Korean neo-Confucian academy, Namgye Seowon in Hamyang, South Gyeongsang, a Unesco World Heritage Site ahead of the day of welcoming spring on Feb. 4 this year.

2023.2.1

Ambassador of the Netherlands to Korea, Joanne Doornewaard, left, and her husband, Wouter Verhey, agricultural counselor at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Beijing, at the secret garden of Changdeok Palace, a Unesco World Heritage site in central Seoul, on May 26. [PARK SANG-MOON]

[Into the heart of the country] The Dutch influence on Seoul's cityscape

Joanne Doornewaard, ambassador of the Netherlands to Korea, was once a landscape architect. And it’s not hard to imagine her in her previous profession once she gets started talking about Korea. “When I first heard about the palaces, I was amazed...

2020.7.9

A photo taken by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation and Cultural Heritage Administration for the promotion of heritage sites in Korea. [KOREA CULTURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION]

Itineraries launched to make the most of Korea's heritage

In an effort to encourage more visits to Unesco heritage sites in Korea, the Cultural Heritage Administration has come up with seven tour routes designed for visitors to get the most out of the landmarks over a two to three day time frame...

2020.5.26

A special exhibition dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the May 18 movement in Gwangju is open through Oct. 31 at National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in central Seoul. [ESTHER CHUNG]

Special exhibition hopes to shed light on Gwangju uprising

Features first-person accounts from government and citizens involved... “The atmosphere is so tense that even the sound of our breathing is getting on each other’s nerves,” wrote Kim Hyun-kyung in her diary dated May 23, 1980...

2020.5.17

Tag: unesco heritage

unesco heritage

Latest News

Korea opens its first Unesco World Heritage Committee in Busan with calls for peace and cooperation

North Korea’s Mount Kumgang named Unesco World Heritage site

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Welcoming spring

[Into the heart of the country] The Dutch influence on Seoul's cityscape

Itineraries launched to make the most of Korea's heritage

Special exhibition hopes to shed light on Gwangju uprising