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South Korea seeks to inscribe 2 grassroots protests on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register

South Korea seeks to inscribe 2 grassroots protests on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register

Korea, France to collaborate in scientific analysis of 'Jikji'

Ocean-going ships were key to rising maritime economies of the Early Modern period, and understanding how they were built is critical to grasp the challenges faced by shipwrights and merchant seafarers. Shipwreck timbers hold material evidence of the dynamic interplay of wood supplies, craftmanship, and evolving ship designs that helped shape the Early Modern world. Here we present the results of dendroarchaeological research carried out on Batavia’s wreck timbers, currently on display at the Western Australian Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle. Built in Amsterdam in 1628 CE and wrecked on ...

A cultural exchange organization under the South Korean Foreign Ministry has given an award to Hiroshi Nakao, a Japanese researcher of Korean envoys to Japan between 17th and 19th century, for his contribution to promoting civil exchanges between the two countries. Nakao, an 85-year-old visiting professor at Kyoto University of…