
A blacksmith in Dangjin, South Chungcheong Province, designated as a provincial intangible heritage in 2016. Courtesy of Korea Heritage Service
The Korea Heritage Service (KHS) is launching an analysis to find out whether or not 9 cultural practices rooted in conventional Korean expertise and information, corresponding to blacksmithing and dried seaweed farming, are eligible for Nationwide Intangible Cultural Heritage standing.
The state-run company introduced Monday that it’ll contemplate these 9 objects for intangible heritage standing this 12 months.
The objects embrace „daejangjang“ (blacksmithing), „seonhwa“ (Korean Seon Buddhist portray), information of „multtae“ (tide and time), farming of „gim“ (dried seaweed), conventional fishing village communities, village forests and associated conventional information, conventional irrigation information and tradition, „deokjang“ (out of doors fish drying website) and the tradition of utilizing „homi“ (hand plows).
Daejangjang refers to an artisan who possesses conventional metalworking strategies and passes it down. In South Chungcheong Province’s Dangjin County, which has maintained the method for over 100 years, a blacksmith obtained designation as provincial intangible heritage in 2016 in recognition of this method that’s disappearing on account of industrialization.

Ven. Seonggak works on „seonhwa,“ or Korean Seon Buddhist portray, on this April 2018 photograph. Newsis
Seonhwa is Seon Buddhist portray that freely expresses enlightenment with out being certain by particular portray or calligraphy strategies. It’s thought-about a part of the Seon follow in Buddhism and is at the moment designated as intangible heritage within the port metropolis of Busan.
Korea has been actively practising seaweed farming for the reason that seventeenth century when seaweed connected to wood fences was put in within the sea, in accordance with data from the Nationwide Folks Museum of Korea. This system later developed into an business and laver has now grow to be one of many nation’s consultant meals export merchandise.
Many of the different objects newly added to the investigation checklist are heritage objects based mostly on conventional information. Multtae information refers back to the recognition and understanding of tidal variations in Korean seas, whereas homi tradition encompasses the historical past and utilization of the normal farming software. Additionally, village forests and associated information are intangible heritage that present how conventional village communities perceived forests as necessary communal areas.
“We plan to look at the worth as intangible heritage, specializing in community-transmitted objects that don’t individually acknowledge holders or holding teams,” a KHS official mentioned.
Moreover, the KHS will survey the present standing of successors for 31 objects within the fields of conventional performing arts and strategies this 12 months.