Korea’s first alcoholic beverage critic and travel writer Huh Si-myeong gave a special lecture “Charms and Transformations of Makgeolli—Huh Si-myeong’s Stories on Korean Traditional Alcoholic Beverages and Intangible Cultural Heritage” on 22 June 2022 at the National Intangible Heritage Center’s...
Living heritage can be a powerful source of resilience against changing climatic conditions. In the Hindu Kush mountain ranges of Pakistan, the Kalasha people practice suri jagek—a meteorological and astronomical knowledge system based on observing the sun, moon, stars, and...
From 2015 to 2016, ICHCAP executed a project for ICH video production in Central Asia with four Central Asian countries and Mongolia. As a result of the project, fifty videos were produced and are now available on ICHCAP’s e-Knowledge Center....
For centuries, the people of the central Caroline Islands have relied heavily on their voyaging canoes as their primary means of transport. They made voyages to islands near and far to obtain food, tools, and other valuables. In some instances,...