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Nationalism and preserving Korea's buried past: the Office of Cultural Properties and archaeological heritage management in South Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hyung Il Pai
Hyung Il Pai*
Affiliation:
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, HSSB Building, University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106, USA. Hyungpai@humanitas.ucsb.edu
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The origins of Korean archaeological heritage management can be traced to 1916, when Japan's Resident-general Government in Korea (Chōsen Sōtokufu: 1910-1945) promulgated the first comprehensive laws of historical preservation called the ‘Regulations for the Preservation of Korea's Remains and Relics’. They reflected a combination of late Meiji and early Taishō era laws tailored to the Korean peninsula such as Lost and Stolen Antiquities (1909); Temples and Shrines Protection Laws (1911); the Preservation of Stone and Metal Inscriptions (1916); and most significantly, the establishment of an administrative apparatus, the Committee on the Investigation of Korean Antiquities (1916). The Chōsen Sōtokufu Museum laws governing art exhibitions and display were compiled from Imperial Museum laws (Tokyo National Museum 1976) dating from 1890-1907 (Chōsen Sōkufu 1924: 215-30).

Keywords

Office of Cultural Propertiesnational treasuresmonumentheritage management lawstourismdevelopment
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Special section
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 281 , September 1999 , pp. 619 - 625
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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