An advisory committee of the Korea Heritage Service (KHS) expressed robust issues on Thursday over the Seoul Metropolitan Authorities’s plan to construct high-rise buildings close to the historic Jongmyo Shrine.
The Cultural Heritage Committee underneath the KHS criticized town’s improvement plan for the Sewun 4 District, positioned throughout from the 14th-century Confucian shrine, describing it as “a transfer that disregards social consensus.”
The committee, tasked with finding out and deliberating on issues associated to preservation and administration of cultural heritage websites, stated it’s “following the collection of developments critically.”
The committee emphasised it had already reached an settlement with town in 2018, permitting buildings as much as 55 meters overlooking the Jongno space and as much as 71.9 meters overlooking Cheonggye Stream.
“We reached this answer by years of session and evaluation, with settlement from all events concerned,” it stated, calling it “the product of coordination the place preservation and improvement can coexist.”
The town, nevertheless, has not too long ago elevated the utmost heights to 101 and 145 meters, respectively.
Denouncing town’s peak revision, the committee stated the transfer disregards social consensus and demonstrates a transparent bias in favor of improvement pursuits.
It urged town to conduct a World Heritage Influence Evaluation, noting that the preservation of Jongmyo’s worth constitutes “a global dedication and obligation.”
Jongmyo, one among Korea’s earliest UNESCO World Heritage websites, was inscribed in 1995 for its excellent common worth because the oldest and most intact royal Confucian shrine. Based on the KHS, UNESCO’s authentic inscription situation explicitly stipulated that no high-rise constructing permits be granted within the adjoining areas that would hurt the panorama of the World Heritage website.
