▲ This photo, provided by the Cultural Heritage Administration, shows the agreement ceremony for the cultural heritage international development cooperation project. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

▲ This photo, provided by the Cultural Heritage Administration, shows  Bahodir Abdikarimov, Uzbekistan Director of Cultural Heritage (left) and Gong Dal-yong, researcher of the Cultural Heritage Administration (right) at the signing ceremony which was held in Uzbekistan. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- The Korean Cultural Heritage Organization will be joining hands with Uzbekistan for the next five years to conduct the preservation and management of cultural heritage in the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan.

The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on Friday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Cultural Heritage Administration of Uzbekistan for international development cooperation projects revolving around the cultural heritage in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Thursday.

Accordingly, the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation will help build the Samarkand Archaeological Research Conservation and Management Center, jointly excavate at the Kyzyl-tepa site, and catalog Samarkand's cultural heritage.

With the Kyzyl-tepa ruins belonging to the ruins of the Samarkand region, their exact nature has not yet been determined although it is presumed to be related to the ruins of the city of Afrasiab.

The related project will be carried out by the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation, and approximately KRW 4.4 billion will be invested.

Ahead of this agreement, on June, the Korea Cultural Heritage Foundation had signed an agreement with the Archaeological Institute of Samarkand under the Cultural Heritage Administration of Uzbekistan for the "Samarkand region cultural and tourism resource development capacity strengthening project."

"Please help the transmission of Korea's advanced experiences and technologies to Uzbekistan," said Aziz Abdukhakimov, an Uzbek Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Minister of Tourism and Cultural Heritage, according to the Cultural Heritage Administration.

Samarkand is located at the center of the Silk Road.

Being one of the oldest city in central Asia, it is a city where diverse cultures intersect, and was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001. In Korea, the Afrasiab murals depicting a figure believed to be a Goguryeo envoy is well known.

 

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Haemin Kim.)

 

 

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