WONJU, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Wonju Hanji Culture Festival, celebrating the traditional Korean paper known as hanji, attracted 430,000 visitors both online and in person, organizers said on October 1. The event’s success is seen as a significant step toward securing UNESCO World Heritage status for the centuries-old craft. The four-day festival, which ran [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s foreign minister has asked the U.N. cultural agency to monitor Japan’s compliance with recommendations on a Japanese mine complex, which is associated with Korea’s wartime forced labor and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cho Tae-yul made the request in a meeting with UNESCO Director-General [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group Seventeen has launched a global youth support initiative in collaboration with UNESCO, the group’s agency said Tuesday, marking a significant step in its role as the organization’s goodwill ambassador for youth. The 13-member group and UNESCO introduced the “Going Together – For Youth Creativity & Well-Being” program [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) on Monday criticized the government for failing to prevent a Japanese gold mine associated with Korea’s wartime forced labor from being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. On Saturday, the UNESCO World Heritage committee decided to add the controversial mine as a [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan’s former gold mine, associated with South Korea’s wartime forced labor, is expected to be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site over the weekend, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Friday. Seoul has protested Tokyo’s push to enlist its gold and silver mine complex on Sado Island, arguing that Japan [...]
ANDONG, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – An on-site assessment to review the possible designation of a geopark on the country’s southeastern coast as a UNESCO global geopark is under way, officials said Thursday. The four-day field inspection, set to run through Sunday, will cover some 2,693 square meters of Gyeongbuk Donghaean Geopark spread across the southeastern [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Popular K-pop group Seventeen has been appointed as UNESCO’s first-ever Goodwill Ambassador for Youth. The boy group received a letter of appointment from UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay during a nomination ceremony held at its headquarters in Paris on Wednesday (local time). “We are humbled and overwhelmed to stand before [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Boy group Seventeen will be named UNESCO’s Goodwill Ambassador for Youth, its agency said Tuesday. It marks the first time UNESCO will designate a youth goodwill ambassador, and Seventeen will also become the first K-pop act to be appointed as official UNESCO goodwill ambassadors, according to Pledis Entertainment. “Since [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is vying for UNESCO recognition of the traditional knowledge, skills and cultural practices associated with the production of hanji, the nation’s iconic handmade paper crafted from the inner bark of the mulberry tree. The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on Saturday that it has submitted an application to UNESCO [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Cultural Heritage Administration has announced the submission of an application to inscribe the “Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream” as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, marking a significant milestone in the preservation and recognition of this historic asset that is seen as the pinnacle of prehistoric culture on [...]