Gwangju City Expands Cultural Heritage Designation and Registration... Commits to Preservation and Management

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City is taking steps to expand the designation and registration of cultural assets and to preserve and manage them.

On the 2nd, Gwangju City held a meeting attended by cultural asset officials from five autonomous districts to discuss measures for expanding designated and registered cultural assets and developing cultural asset policies.

This meeting was promoted to prepare related measures following the proposal for active designation and registration of cultural assets to enhance citizens' historical awareness and identity by the Cultural Arts Future Committee, which was launched to unite the capabilities of local cultural artists and create a prestigious first-class cultural city.

At the meeting, it was decided to actively respond by utilizing systems such as city-registered cultural assets, local cultural heritage, and excellent architectural assets for modern buildings disappearing due to redevelopment and urban development, in order to proactively discover outstanding cultural heritage and expand designated (registered) cultural assets.

Additionally, basic data on modern cultural heritage and local cultural heritage will be cataloged and surveyed, and if deemed culturally valuable, designation and registration of cultural assets will be pursued through the Cultural Asset Committee.

In particular, Gwangju City and the five autonomous districts will establish a collaborative system and strengthen communication by regularizing the 'Cultural Asset Officials Meeting' to preserve and manage cultural assets in a manner befitting Gwangju and to revitalize cultural heritage.

Through a public-private cooperation system (governance) for cultural asset management, including related institutions, a systematic cultural asset management system will be established.

Furthermore, for intangible cultural assets, from this year, applications and evaluations for holders, transmission education assistants, and completers will be regularized twice a year in the first and second halves to build a stable and efficient foundation for intangible cultural asset succession.

In addition, at the beginning of each year, related schedules will be announced through the Gwangju City website to facilitate easy handling of intangible cultural asset-related tasks.

Kim Young-geun, Director of Cultural Infrastructure Creation at the city, said, “We will do our best to actively discover excellent local cultural heritage and respond proactively to the preservation and management of cultural assets to foster citizens' pride and safely pass them on to future generations.”

Meanwhile, in February, Gwangju City established the '2021 Cultural Asset Preservation and Management Implementation Plan' and the '2021 Intangible Cultural Asset Preservation and Implementation Plan' to systematically manage cultural assets within the city.

This year, Gwangju plans to promote projects for the complete preservation and value enhancement of local cultural heritage, including cultural asset repair and maintenance projects (32 sites, 2.4 billion KRW), cultural asset utilization projects such as vivid cultural assets (14 projects, 2.2 billion KRW), and cultural asset care projects (211 sites, 800 million KRW).

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