What is the job of the Cultural Heritage Administration?

• The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) is a central administrative agency that undertakes various jobs related to the conservation, management, and utilization of cultural properties ranging from the designation to the cancellation of a cultural property. To conserve and manage cultural properties, the essence of the Korean culture and the shared properties of all mankind, in a more systemic and effective manner, the CHA pursues several major policy targets including: establishing the cultural identity of Korea by preserving its archetype; harmonizing development with preservation; and improving the enjoyment rights of cultural properties. 
• Along with the general jobs of preserving and managing cultural properties, the CHA also undertakes a variety of other tasks: the approval of the alteration of cultural properties to prevent their surrounding landscape from being damaged; pre-and-post safety management of cultural properties such as theft prevention and disaster preparation in order to prevent artificial and natural damage of cultural properties; repair and maintenance of damaged cultural properties; introducing Korean traditional culture to the global community and cultural exchange with other countries; and raising the public awareness of the importance of the preservation of cultural properties. Recently, emphasis is put on methods to find and utilize the modern value of cultural properties. 
• Cultural properties administrations include not only numerous executive tasks performed in the field of cultural properties but also policy tasks for creative succession of them. To perform such a complex task, the CHA should become a more specialized and effective organization. For this purpose, it has committed itself to expanding the infrastructure of cultural properties administration centering on the realization of the electronic government and R&D; producing experts of cultural properties through training and education; and minimizing conflicts in the fields of cultural property preservation by encouraging participation of neighbors. 
• Process of Cultural Administration