Deadline: 7 June 2021 UNESCO with the support of the Korean Government will hold an 8-week-long course online starting from September 2021. Targeting early to mid-career professionals from governments and civil society organizations in the ASEAN region, the training was...
Hanoi, 26 December 2020: A community seminar participated by five local tugging ritual and game communities took place at Hanoi Museum to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the element’s inscription on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage...
Over thousands of years, the Vietnamese have held a deep belief in the lunar calendar. Although most of today’s activities are scheduled in the Gregorian calendar, they still keep track of dates in the old way—many traditional cultural activities are...
A new book in the ICH & Society publication series, Ha Noi Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary Life, was launched at the Hanoi Temple of Literature on 9 November 2018. The publication is the result from a two-year collaboration between...
From 23 to 25 October, ICHCAP held the 2018 Expert Workshop on ICH Video Production in Southeast Asia at the National Intangible Heritage Center in Jeonju, Korea. The workshop and meeting sessions were attended by twenty-three ICH and video experts...
ICHCAP will hold the 2018 Asia-Pacific ICH NGO Conference in Hue, Vietnam, from 6 to 8 November 2018, jointly with the Hue Monuments Conservation Center (HMCC). It is the second conference following the previous one held in Jeonju, Korea, in...
The Cheongju-Vietnam International Exchange Exhibition will be held at the Korean Craft Museum in Cheongju from 4 to 16 September 2018. Dubbed as Cheongju Meets Vietnam, the exhibition will host traditional craftsmen and display about thirty Vietnamese crafts in Exhibition...
Building on the theme “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development; Hue—One Destination, Five World Heritages”, the tenth Hue Festival will be held from 27 April to 2 May 2018. Hue Festival 2018 is regarded as the succession and also the...
Ten elements from the Asia-Pacific region have been added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, while one element from the region has been inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent...
Cultural heritage in Vietnam is a valuable property of the Vietnamese people and the foundation for national traditions that have formed over many generations. With more than 40,000 cultural heritage elements and sites, Vietnam has highly respected treasures to be...