Changwon Special City Designates First Three Local Cultural Heritage Items

Selection of Historical and Academic Significance and Educational Material Utilization Value

Gyeongnam Changwon Special City has designated three local cultural heritage items for the first time.
The photo shows the Mangjuseok in Jinhae, Changwon.
Photo by Changwon Reporter

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Song Jong-gu] Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam has designated three local cultural heritages for the first time.

The city held the Local Cultural Heritage Protection Committee meeting in the 3rd conference room of City Hall on the 28th.

On this day, the committee reviewed the designation proposal for local cultural heritage among non-designated cultural properties in Changwon City, focusing on those with historical and academic importance and preservation value.

It was finally decided to designate three cultural properties as Changwon City's local cultural heritage: ▲Changwon Dogye-dong Tumuli ▲Changwon Guam-dong Tumuli (Hapseong-dong Tumuli 2) ▲Changwon Jinhae Mangjuseok.

The Dogye-dong Tumuli in Changwon Special City (Jung-dong 800, Uichang-gu, Changwon City) is evaluated as an important resource that typically represents the nature of the political entity of the Three Kingdoms period formed around the Changwon Basin area, and is currently being developed into a historic park.

The Guam-dong Tumuli (around San 14-1, Hapseong-dong, Masanhwawon-gu, Changwon City) is the largest Three Kingdoms period burial mound (3 mounds) in Changwon and is considered to have significant academic value.

The Mangjuseok in Jinhae, Changwon (28-6, Jehwangsan-dong, Jinhae-gu, Changwon City) was taken out by the Japanese during the construction of the Jinhae naval port in 1910 but was repatriated to the homeland after about 100 years in 2009 through the efforts of Korean potter Shim Su-gwan and the Korean Cultural Center in Japan, holding important significance as a recovered cultural asset.

One of a presumed pair located in front of the annex of the Naval Jinhae Base Command was also designated together.

The city plans to designate these as Changwon City's local cultural heritage after collecting opinions during a 30-day administrative notice period.

Gu Jin-ho, Director of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, said, “Changwon City will designate historically important and preservation-worthy heritages as local cultural heritage to systematically preserve and manage non-designated cultural properties and strive to establish itself as a historic cultural city.”

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