Jeju’s culture of haenyeo(women divers) was inscribed onto the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the 11th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage held on November 28-December 2 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In commemoration of its inscription on the UNESCO list, the National Intangible Heritage Center in Jeonju, an affiliated organization of the Cultural Heritage Administration is holding a special exhibition on the culture of haenyeo from December 6, 2016 through March 31, 2017, and artifacts from the Haenyeo Museum in Jeju are being displayed at the exhibition alongside modern artworks to offer an integrated understanding of haenyeo culture. The Cultural Heritage Administration(CHA) hopes that the haenyeo culture would gain fresh attention around the world, and with the addition of the haenyeo culture, Korea now has 19 items on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.