Korea Heritage Service to Discuss the Transmission of 'Jang-Making' in Sunchang

Review the Current Status of Preservation and Use, and Explore Ways to Collaborate

The government, private sector and local communities will discuss ways to ensure the sustainable transmission of jang-making.

Making Kimjang with Foreigners

The Korea Heritage Service will hold a “National Heritage Forum” with the State Governance Research Association of the Korean Association for Public Administration at 3:30 p.m. on October 15 in the conference hall of Sunchang Fermentation Theme Park. The forum will focus on jang-making, a way of life passed down through generations in families and communities. It was designated a National Intangible Heritage in 2018 and inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2024.

The presentation will be delivered by Park Gyuri, acting secretary-general of the International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region. The designated discussants, moderated by National Heritage Committee member Choi Yeongu, will include Sun Yunsuk, president of the Sunchang Fermentation Tourism Foundation, and Professor Ryu Inpyeong of Jeonju University. In the plenary discussion, experts and members of the public will review the current status of the preservation and use of jang-making culture and explore ways to collaborate.

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