Gyeonggi-do Reinitiates Efforts to Inscribe Bukhansanseong on the Tentative List of World Heritage Sites

[Asia Economy (Uijeongbu) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province is re-initiating the registration of Bukhansanseong on the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list.

On the 30th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it held a kickoff meeting for the "Research on the Preparation of the Tentative List Registration Application" for the World Heritage registration of Bukhansanseong on the 29th at the Goyang City Administrative Training Center, jointly with the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation and Goyang City.

Earlier, in February 2018, Gyeonggi Province submitted an application for tentative list registration for World Heritage registration to the Cultural Heritage Administration.

However, the World Heritage Subcommittee of the Cultural Heritage Committee of the Cultural Heritage Administration rejected the application during the review and recommended examining the serial heritage of Hanyangdoseong, Tangchundaeseong, and Bukhansanseong.

Accordingly, through this project, the province plans to supplement the reasons for rejection by the Cultural Heritage Committee, conduct academic and comparative research on the recommendations, and submit a newly revised UNESCO World Heritage tentative list registration application this year.

By the end of this year, the tasks will include ▲ collecting, organizing, and analyzing existing research related to the World Heritage registration of Bukhansanseong ▲ proposing the "Outstanding Universal Value" of Bukhansanseong ▲ and preparing a new tentative list registration application for World Heritage.

The academic research project is being carried out by A&N&A Cultural Research Institute.

Through continuous research, investigation, and excavation of Bukhansanseong by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, restoration and maintenance efforts by Goyang City, and budget support from Gyeonggi Province, cooperation will be strengthened to promote the World Heritage registration of Bukhansanseong.

The World Heritage tentative list is a list of heritage sites that the parties to the World Heritage Convention wish to register.

Bukhansanseong, built since the Three Kingdoms period, was extensively renovated in the 37th year of King Sukjong of Joseon (1711) to defend the capital.

Within the fortress, there are 71 cultural heritage assets, including Samgaksan, the relic pagoda and stele of Taegosa Temple, and Sanyeongru, which contains the poetry and writings of Kim Jeong-hee.

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