Researcher Jeong Kyung Hyo (054-777-5205)

As the Summer Holidays have arrived, the Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (Director LeeJong-Hoon), under the Cultural Heritage Administration,plans to provide three booksintroducing the history of Silla and important remains in Gyeongju at theirwebsite. A video that researchers of the Gyeongju National Research Institute ofCultural Heritage (the GNRICH) appear in person to explainhistorical sites,will be released on YouTube on August 6^th.

The books, will beprovided at the website of the GNRICH, are ‘Daedam Silla[Silla talk_對談新羅]’, ‘UriJosangdeuli Danyeogan Silla Wanggyeong, Gyeongju [The Silla capital, visited by our ancestors, in Gyeongju]’ and ‘Deokeopilsin Mangrasabang [The great achievements are being renewedday by day, it covers all over the world_德業日新網羅四方].

‘Daedam Silla’ is a compilation oflectures on Silla’s history and culture, which researchers of the GNRIC Horganized it for citizens, in 2018. ‘UriJosangdeuli Danyeogan Silla Wanggyeong, Gyeongju’ presents Korean poetry inclassical Chinese, left by ancestors while traveling around Gyeongju, its related photographs and all types of written records. Lastly, ‘Deokeopilsin Mangrasabang* introduces what the GNRICH does and achievements of their excavations at crucial sites inGyeongju.

*Deokeopilsin Mangrasabang: this is a phrase to illustrate the name of the country‘Silla’ inJijeong Maripgan(king) articles in 『Samguksagi_History of theThree Kingdoms』.

All of these books are provided in PDF files with high-resolution at the website. Hence, there are no difficulties to use it in electronic devices suchas mobile phones and IPad& tablets or an actual print form.

On YouTube releasing on August 6^th, three editors of the book ‘Uri Josangdeuli Danyeogan Silla Wanggyeong,Gyeongju’ will take part in the video and explain Seondosan mountain (Muyeolwangreong_thetomb of King Taejong Muyeol), Nam mountain (Poseokjeong Pavilion, Najeong_awell with the founding myth of Silla) and Wolseong (Royal Palace of Silla) and historical monuments around it (Michuwangreong_the tomb of King Michu). They describe their parts in the book by adding images and also tell the stories of Korean poetry in classical Chinese (漢詩) based on those historical remains. 

Furthermore, they say lucidly that the historical monuments are a significant connection between the past and present and the ancestors and us through aerial images bydrones, photographs, results of excavation, and other materials.

The electronic files (PDF) can be downloaded through the pop-up window, created atthe GNRICH’s website (www.nrich.go.kr/gyeongju) on August 6^th. At the same day, the video will be released on the GNRICH’s YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyvYCBA2aJFa8hIdIpur82Q)

The GNRICH hopes that these releasing e-book filesand the video will provide practical tourist information to tourists who wantto enjoy cultural heritages and go sightseeing around Gyeongju in a relaxed and calm manner with the old stories in there. For further information about thesee-books and the video, please do contact the Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (054-777-5205).