Mr Jisung Kim, newly assigned as the Director-General of the UNESCO ICHCAP, began his three-year term from 1 January this year. Jisung Kim, the new Director-General, is an expert on cultural heritage, who served as a General Manager of General...
The Ninth Annual Coordination Meeting of Category 2 Centres Active in the Field of Intangible Cultural Heritage was held on 29 November 2021 online. It was organized by the Living Heritage Entity of UNESCO, and supported by ICHCAP. The meeting...
The 2nd ichLinks Executive Committee was held online on December 9, 2021 (Thursday), from 2 pm to 5 pm (KST). Twelve Partner Organizations (Malaysia, Mongolia, Vietnam, Bhutan, Singapore, Uzbekistan, India, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Fiji) participated and had a...
In 2021, ICHCAP launched the information-sharing platform ichLinks (www.ichlinks.com), a one-stop online platform where people can easily meet a wide range of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) information and content shared by Asia-Pacific countries. In relation to ichLInks, special events were...
International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (UNESCO-ICHCAP) published a new book in the Living Heritage Series – Traditional Musical Instruments: Sharing Experiences from the Field in collaboration with...
The 2021 ICHCAP Governing Board Meeting was convened at the Daejeon Convention Center, Republic of Korea on 5 November 2021. The meeting was held under strict quarantine and attended by eight Governing Board members and Category 2 Centers from China...
UNESCO-ICHCAP, with cooperation with the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) and the Korean Foundation's Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat, co-hosted and launched the Silk Roads Living Heritage Network on 28 and 29 October 2021. The event took place...
OpenArchive Event © ICHCAP ICHCAP is planning to hold ichLinks Open archive contest from October 25 to November 25. ichLinks Open archive aims to be performed as a channel for discovering and sharing the ICH stories around our daily lives....
UNESCO-ICHCAP, with cooperation with the International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) and Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat, co-host the launching events of the Silk Roads Living Heritage Network on October 28 and 29, at DDP, Seoul, and online during...
On Thursday, September 30, ‘2021 Intangible Cultural Heritage Youth Summit’ was held in parallel to the 2021 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage hosted by the National Intangible Heritage Center and organized by the International Information & Networking Centre for...