Abstract:

Due to its geographical location, Korea has been exposed to colonial attacks by neighboring countries until the Korean War (1950-1953). During the colonial period, he had to accept the cultures and even the lifestyles of the country that exploited his land. For example, when it was under the influence of China (109), the Korean peninsula had to adopt China's religion, language, and even political order. The Korean people, who lived under the Japanese colony (1910-1945) in recent history, were exposed to various pressures from Japan in this period. Japan made these pressures to alienate the Korean people from their own culture and to spread the Japanese culture. The Korean peninsula tried to preserve its traditional abstract cultures, thinking that their traditional cultures would change during the colonial period. For this purpose, it supported the opening of various institutions and training centers. The South Korean Government has increased the awareness of intangible cultural assets at the local and international level by signing UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention in 2005. In this article, the institutions established by the South Korean Government to protect their intangible cultural heritage and the festivals and programs that it regularly organizes every year are evaluated. Thus, a general study was conducted on how the South Korean Government preserves their traditional intangible culture.

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