Hamyang-gun Selected for Content Planning Service Tender Utilizing Namgye Seowon World Heritage Site

Spatial Storytelling with Smart Experience Center and VR Book

Namgye Seowon in Hamyang-gun (Photo by Hamyang-gun)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Namgye Seowon in Hamyang-gun, Gyeongnam (Historic Site No. 499) was selected in December 2020 for the domestic UNESCO World Heritage utilization content planning service project.

The World Heritage utilization content planning service project is a service aimed at developing new utilization content that can more easily convey the universal value of World Heritage, a representative cultural heritage of the region, by applying recently expanded media and IT technologies to World Heritage sites.

Through this project, the county will establish spatial storytelling at Hamyang Namgye Seowon that provides educational, historical, and popular satisfaction beyond simple experiences.

They plan to create a smart experience center (AR (Augmented Reality) · VR book (Virtual Reality)) to embed historical stories, offering an opportunity to learn about the culture of scholars from five hundred years ago in an enjoyable way.

Seo Chun-soo, the governor of Hamyang-gun, stated, “Through the content project to be established in 2022 after sufficient preliminary planning and review during the service period until December, we will do our best to increase local attractions, revitalize the local economy, and ensure that Namgye Seowon becomes a representative World Heritage hub in Gyeongnam.”

Namgye Seowon, which enshrines Ildu Jeong Yeo-chang as its main figure, was registered as a World Heritage site as one of Korea’s Seowon in 2019. It is one of the 47 Seowon that survived the Seowon abolition order by Heungseon Daewongun in 1868 without being destroyed, and it is the only remaining Seowon in the province.

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