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  2013 International Symposium

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  Symposium participants at the 2013 Gijisi
  Juldarigi (tug-of-war) Festival

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  Symposium participants at the 2013 Gijisi
  Juldarigi (tug-of-war) Festival

• · Date 12 April 2013, Friday, 10:30 ~ 18:30
• · Venue  Gijisi Juldarigi Museum, Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do
• · Theme Diverse and Common Aspects of Traditional Tug-of-War in East Asia
• · Main contents
    
  • - Enhancing understanding about tug-of-war in East Asia
  • - International distribution and current state of transmission of traditional tug-of-war in East Asia
  • - Tasks and prospect for safeguarding traditional tug-of-war in East Asia
• · Participants Around 80 experts and government officials in Cambodia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Philippines and the Republic of Korea
• · Host Dangjin-si, Chungcheongnam-do
• · Organizer ICHCAP

Session 1

International Cooperation on Safeguarding ICH and the Traditional Tug-of-War

• International Safeguarding of ICH under the 2003 UNESCO Convention_Seong-Yong Park (Assistant Director, ICHCAP)
• Shared, but with Differences: Multinational ICH as Shared Heritages of the Humanity and Their Implications for Cultural
  Diversity within and Across Borders_Sangmee Bak (Professor, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
• Traditional Tug-of-War as Shared ICH in East Asia_Yon-Hak Jeong (Senior Curator, the National Folk Museum of Korea)

Session 2

Diverse and Common Aspects of the Traditional Tug-of-War as Shared ICH in East Asia

• Traditional Tug-of-War Festival in Vietnam: Case of Huong Canh Tug-of-War Festival
  _Nguyen Kim Dung (Chief, ICH Management Division, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Viet Nam)
• Teanh Prot (Traditional Tug-of-War) in Cambodia
  _Siyonn Sophiearith (Lecturer, Royal University of Fine Arts, Cambodia)
• Punnuk: Closing the Harvest Season with the Tug-of-War along the River Hapao
  _Norma A. Respicio (Professor, University of the Philippines)
• The Present Situation of Transmission of Traditional Tug-of-War in Japan
  _Hoshino Horoshi (Emeritus Researcher, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
• Korean Tug-of-War: Diversity and Its Significance
  _Yang-Myung Han (Professor, Andong National University)

Appendix

• List of Participants