Kim Yu-jin of South Korea, proper, battles Nahid Kiani of Iran within the ultimate of the ladies’s 57-kilogram taekwondo occasion on the Paris Olympics at Grand Palais in Paris, Aug. 8, 2024 (native time). Yonhap
South Korea goals to hitch forces with North Korea to hunt UNESCO recognition for the standard martial artwork of taekwondo as a shared intangible cultural heritage, officers stated Monday.
The Cultural Heritage Committee, an advisory physique to the Korea Heritage Service (KHS), has chosen taekwondo as the subsequent candidate for a joint or expanded inscription on the Consultant Listing of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity throughout a current assembly, in accordance with the KHS.
“We plan to submit an software to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguard of the Intangible Cultural Heritage by March,” a KHS official stated on situation of anonymity.
The transfer comes after Pyongyang submitted its personal software in March 2024 to listing “Taekwon-Do, conventional martial artwork within the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea.” The Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea is North Korea’s official title. A overview of the North’s bid is at present beneath approach, with a ultimate choice anticipated through the committee’s twenty first session in Xiamen, China, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 5.
If profitable, the transfer would mark the second joint heritage itemizing between the 2 Koreas after the standard Korean wrestling of “ssireum” was collectively inscribed in 2018.
For North Korea, taekwondo would turn into its sixth UNESCO intangible heritage merchandise if permitted. Its present listing contains the “Arirang” folks track (2014), kimchi-making (2015), “ssireum” (2018), the “Pyongyang Raengmyon customized” (chilly noodles) (2022) and the “Customized of Korean costume: conventional data, abilities and social practices” (2024).
South Korea at present maintains 23 entries on the UNESCO listing, starting from “Jongmyo Jeryeak,” majestic orchestral music carried out for rituals at a royal Confucian shrine, inscribed in 2001, to the custom of constructing fermented soybean sauces, listed as “Data, beliefs and practices associated to jang making.”
Seoul can also be looking for to inscribe the standard data and abilities related to the manufacturing of “hanji,” or conventional Korean paper, this 12 months. One other candidate, “Ginseng Tradition: A Tradition of Caring for and Appreciating Nature and Household (Neighborhood),” is scheduled for analysis in 2028.
