De hoofdacteurs van een populair lokaal episch drama zullen Pjongjang bezoeken half maart. Ze voorzien een bezoek aan het oorspronkelijke grondgebied van het oude Koreaanse koninkrijk Koguryo (37 B.C.-668), een thema waarover de dramaserie gaat. vervolg

Lead actors of popular local epic drama will visit Pyongyang around the middle of the month. They plan to visit the part of the original territory of the ancient Korean kingdom of Koguryo (37 B.C.-668), which the drama dealt with. continue

Scholars from the two Koreas will begin a joint excavation of a historical site in Kaesong, North Korea starting early next month. continue

North Korea has agreed to send some of its national treasures to South Korea for the country’s first-ever exhibition of northern artifacts spanning Korea’s entire history, museum officials here said Tuesday. continue

"The mural paintings in Koguryo-period tombs are the best oriental paintings," wrote painter and art historian Kim Yong-jun at the beginning of the "The Outline of Joseon Arts." Mr. Kim wrote that if he looked at a Koguryo mural, it is so mystic and powerful that it felt like he was standing in front of a waterfall, not a painting.
Indeed, he wasn’t exaggerating. The powerful panorama of the murals is as grand as a waterfall. In June 2004, a team from the JoongAng Ilbo visited the tombs (...) continue

Les vestiges de ce royaume guerrier vieux de 1 300 ans, inscrits en juin par l’Unesco au patrimoine mondial de l’humanité, pourraient permettre un désenclavement culturel du pays.
Au sommet d’une colline, le tumulus recouvert d’herbe rase s’encadre dans une massive porte de bois. Derrière s’ouvre une esplanade gardée par huit guerriers de pierre et leurs chevaux. Le monticule conique, doucement arrondi, est adossé à une pinède dont les arbres semblent s’incliner vers lui. Le tumulus abrite (...) suite

North Korea’s conservation of wall paintings in ancient tombs are "not bad," but require assistance from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and South Korea to combat humidity problems, a top UNESCO official said Monday.
Mounir Bouchenaki, the UNESCO assistant director-general for culture, briefed reporters in Seoul about his five-day trip to the communist state.
"The state of conservation is not bad, but the tomb murals can be seriously damaged, (...) continue

There are many legends on Koguryo (277 B.C.-668 A.D.), a powerful nation in the East. The legend on the formation of Koguryo is one of them.
It serves as important data in the study of history as it reflects the course of the building of Koguryo by Jumong and the then social life.
The oldest one of the legends is the story about the national building inscribed in the stone monument to the King Kwanggaetho’s Mausoleum erected in Jian, Jilin Province, China in the year 414. According to (...) continue

The Korean Central History Museum in Pyongyang is visited every day by some 1,000 people. Several thousand pieces of relics showing the long Korean history from the primitive age to modern times are displayed in 19 rooms of the museum.
Among them are more than 400 pieces of relics belonging to the period of Koguryo (B.C.277-668 A.D.). They show well the might of Koguryo, which existed as a powerful state in the East in the mediaeval history of Korea.
It has been proved by the historical (...) continue

A North-South academic conference to commemorate the addition of Koguryo tombs and murals as a United Nations World Heritage Site will be held at Mount Geumgang in North Korea today and tomorrow.
This is the first such meeting of the two Koreas on the ancient kingdom, which occupied much of present-day North Korea and parts of Manchuria. The meeting is sponsored by the North-South Historians’ Council with assistance by the JoongAng Ilbo and the North-South Academic Exchange Council.
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A tile tomb belonging to Koguryo (B.C.277-A.D.668) has been discovered in Woldang-ri, Sinwon County, South Hwanghae Province, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
The tomb was found in the mid-slope of a mountain. The floor, walls and cover of the chamber were made with tiles.
The remaining part of the tomb is 52 centimeters long, 40 centimeters wide and 29 centimeters high. The width of the cover is 52.5 centimeters. The color and raw materials of the tiles, 1.5 centimeters thick, (...) continue

The tombs with murals belonging to the period of Koguryo (277 B.C. to 668 A.D.), the first feudal state of Korea, were registered at the 28th meeting of the World Heritage Committee of the UNESCO held at Suzhou, China as cultural heritage of the world.
They include King Tongmyong’s mausoleum and over 60 tombs with murals including those in Tokhung-ri and Yaksu-ri. They are precious cultural wealth of the Korean nation showing its time-honored history and wisdom.
The tombs were built on (...) continue

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The 28th meeting of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held in Suzhou, China, registered the tombs with murals belonging to the period of Koguryo (277 B.C. to 668 A.D.),the first feudal state of Korea, as the world cultural heritage. continue

La 28e réunion du Comité du Patrimoine mondial de l’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture (UNESCO), qui s’est tenu à Suzhou en Chine, a inscrit les tombes avec des peintures murales de la période du Koguryo comme patrimoine mondial de l’humanité. L’Etat du Koguryo (277 avant J.C. jusqu’à 668 après J.C.) fut le premier Etat féodal de Corée. suite

Tijdens de 28e bijeenkomst van het Comité van het Wereld Erfgoed van de UNESO, die plaatsvond in Suzhou in China, zijn de graven met muurschilderingen uit de Koguryo-periode ingeschreven als Wereld Erfgoed van de Mensheid. De staat Koguryo (277 voor Chr. tot 668 na Chr) was de eerste feodale staat van Korea. vervolg

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had its first site inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List today with the addition of a complex of Koguryo tombs.
The property includes several groups and individual tombs - totalling about 30 individual tombs - from the later period of the Koguryo Kingdom. The tombs, many with beautiful wall paintings, are almost the only remains of this culture. Only about 90 out of more than 10,000 Koguryo tombs discovered in China and Korea so far, have wall (...) continue

North Korea’s Koguryo burial sites and Koguryo ruins in northeastern China were both chosen as World Heritage sites on July 1st, during the Unesco World Heritage Committee’s 28th session.
This is the first time that North Korea has had a World Heritage site since Pyongyang joined the World Heritage Convention.
Koguryo is an ancient kingdom that existed from 37 B.C. to 668 A.D., occupying most of what is now North Korea and large parts of Manchuria, China.
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The 28th Session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO yesterday agreed to inscribe the capital cities and tombs of the ancient Koguryo Kingdom of China onto its world heritage list.
The selection committee also agreed to put the Complex of the Koguryo Tombs which is inside the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the heritage list. The Koguryo Kingdom once expanded to the Korean Peninsula.
To better protect the vanished civilization, the committee recommended future (...) continue

Pour la première fois, un site de la République populaire démocratique de Corée -l’Ensemble des tombes de Koguryo - est inscrit sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO.
Ce site comprend de nombreuses tombes, en groupes ou isolées (une trentaine), datant de la dernière période du Royaume Koguryo. Ces tombes, dont beaucoup sont ornées de splendides peintures murales, constituent presque les seuls vestiges laissés par cette culture. Sur les quelque 10 000 tombes Koguryo découvertes (...) suite

"Mural paintings dating back to the period of Koguryo are precious cultural heritage which the Korean nation boasts before the world" wrote the History Faculty of Kim Il Sung University. continue