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The Archaeological Remains at the Hoeamsa Temple Site in Yangju City was officially registered on the Tentative List of the Republic of Korea by the World Heritage Centre on July 20^th. With this, South Korea has 13 properties on its Tentative List as of July 2022.

UNESCO Tentative List was established to assist the States Parties in preparing UNESCO World Heritage nominations by facilitating further research and information gathering. It is stipulated in the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention that “a nomination dossier will not be considered complete unless the nominated property has already been included on the State Party’s Tentative List” at least one year prior to the submission of any nomination.

The Archaeological Remains at the Hoeamsa Temple Site in Yangju City is located in Yangju City in Gyeonggi-do Province. It consists of stupas, stone lanterns, steles and other monuments commemorating venerable monks as well as about 70 buildings sites which compose the main part of the temple. It was considered to be of Outstanding Universal Value as it offers exceptional testimony to the flourishing of the Seon School of Buddhism across East Asia in the 14th century and provides material evidence of the spatial composition of a Seon monastery and religious and monastic practices of the Seon Buddhism.

The Cultural Heritage Administration will continue to develop its cooperation with Gyeonggi-do Province and Yangju City in order to successfully inscribe the Archaeological Remains at the Hoeamsa Temple Site in Yangju City on the UNESCO World Heritage List.