Historic villages of Hahoe and Yangdong

Historic villages of Hahoe and Yangdong
UNESCO world heritage
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	View of the villages of Hahoe (above) and Yangdong (below)
National territory:	South Korea
Type:	Culture
Criteria :	(iii) (iv)
Reference No .:	1324
UNESCO region :	Asia and Pacific
	History of enrollment
Enrollment:	2010 (session 34)

Historic Villages Hahoe and Yangdong is a UNESCO- listed World Heritage Site in the East Asian state of South Korea . The world heritage site includes the two historic villages of Hahoe and Yangdong as well as three Confucian academies (Seowon) in their vicinity.

background

From 1392 to 1910, for more than 500 years, the Joseon Dynasty ruled the Korean Peninsula . The rulers elevated the previously existing but not dominant Confucianism to the official religion of the Kingdom of Joseon .

The historic villages of Hahoe and Yangdong are 90 km apart in the southeast of the Korean Peninsula in the heartland of the Joseon Dynasty. The villages were founded in the 14th-15th centuries. Founded in the 18th century and expanded to its present size and composition by the late 18th and 19th centuries. Hahoe and Yangdong are considered to be the two most representative representatives of historical clan villages from the early Joseon period, where a single clan formed a village community.

registration

Historic Villages of Hahoe and Yangdong were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2010 based on a resolution of the 34th session of the World Heritage Committee.

The reason for the entry states, among other things:

Within the two villages, the outstanding ensembles of buildings, as well as their arrangement, planning, and building traditions are extraordinary reflections of the social and cultural systems of the Joseon Dynasty, the particularly distinctive system of clan villages specific to this area, and the manner in which it is made how these evolved over five centuries.

The entry was made on the basis of criteria (iii) and (iv).

(iii): Hahoe and Yangdong are two of the best preserved and representative examples of clan villages, a type of settlement characteristic of the early Joseon Dynasty. In terms of their location, planning and building traditions, the two villages are an exceptional testimony to the Confucianism of the Joseon Dynasty, which spawned settlements that followed strict Confucian ideals for a period of about five hundred years.

(iv): The village ensembles of Hahoe and Yangdong reflect the influence of the Joseon Dynasty, which deeply influenced the development of the Korean peninsula over five centuries. The villages and especially the ensemble of Yangban and town houses as well as their overall and individual planning reflect the rules of this dynasty with regard to their social structures and cultural traditions, their power and influence as well as their literary and philosophical traditions.

scope

The world heritage site is made up of five separate areas. These cover a total of 599.6 ha of protection . The individual protection areas are each surrounded by buffer zones, which have a total area of 885.2 ha.

The village of Hahoe ( location , protection area 499.5 ha) and the nearby Confucian Academy Byeongsan Seowon ( location , protection area 1.7 ha) have a shared buffer zone of 566.1 ha. In addition, there is the village of Yangdong ( location , protection area 91.6 ha, buffer zone 237.4 ha) as well as the Confucian academies Oksan Seowon ( location , protection area 6.4 ha) with the Dongnakdang house and Donggang Seowon ( location , protection area 0.4 ha). 36.538917 128.51807236.540278 128.55277836.001111 129.25333336.011734 129.16345735.999167 129.291389

photos

Historic Hahoe Village

Yangdong Historic Village

Confucian Academies
Byeongsan Seowon
Oksan Seowon

literature

Historic Villages of Hahoe and Yangdong . In: Cultural Heritage Administration of South Korea (ed.): World Heritage in Korea . 2011, p. 128-143 (English).

Web links

Commons : Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Historic Villages of Hahoe and Yangdong on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).

Individual evidence

^ English Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong , German translation according to the World Heritage List. In: Unesco.de. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d UNESCO World Heritage Center: Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Decision - 34 COM 8B.21. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .
↑ UNESCO World Heritage Center: Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong. Maps. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[1] English Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong , German translation according to the World Heritage List. In: Unesco.de. Retrieved February 11, 2017 .

[whc-2] UNESCO World Heritage Center: Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .

[3] UNESCO World Heritage Center: Decision - 34 COM 8B.21. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .

[4] UNESCO World Heritage Center: Historic Villages of Korea: Hahoe and Yangdong. Maps. In: whc.unesco.org. Retrieved February 1, 2017 .