UNESCO World Heritage in the Textbook – Korea

This book was published to introduce Korea’s world cultural heritages. In this book, Korea’s 35 cultural heritages registered in UNESCO are recorded. It introduces 10 cultural heritages and natural heritages, such as Bulguksa Temple, Jongmyo Shrine, Gyeongju Historic Areas, 10 Memories of the World like the Hunmin Jeongeum Manuscript, and 15 Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity like the Royal ancestral ritual in the Jongmyo shrine, and the Arirang. Moreover, it introduces General Yi Sun-shin’s Nanjung Ilgi and Saemaeul Movement, which are registered in UNESCO recently, and also North Korea’s cultural heritages, the Complex of the Koguryo Tombs and the Historical Monument and Sites in Kaesong, are introduced in this book. 

Pictures in this book were taken by Kim Yong-Bum, Korea’s famous photographer and director of documentary film, and Yoo Han-Jun, a writer of juvenile stories, wrote explanation. Especially, since Kim Yong-Bum who has traveled the world by car and then made a film of world cultural heritages which was shown for 2 years on KBS, the major channel of Korea TV, has taken all these live and variety pictures, the book is more meaningful. You will find out all of the Korea’s cultural heritages with this valuable book.