The Cultural Heritage Administration will launch a restoration project for Uireung, a royal tomb from the Joseon Dynasty located in Seoul, which is one of the forty burial grounds of kings and queens from the Joseon Dynasty on the World Heritage list. The World Heritage site marked its first anniversary of inscription on the UNESCO list this month. The royal tomb, created in 1724, is of the 20th King Gyeongjong (1688-1724) of the Joseon Dynasty and his lawful second wife Queen Seonui (1705-1730) from the Eo clan. Back in 1960, the burial area was considerably affected from a construction project for building the National Intelligence Service (former Korea Central Intelligence Agency) complex at the site, where the NIS buildings for multi-use were built and a pond and a playground were constructed in front of a pavilion from the past. To implement recommendations from UNESCO, "to restore affected landscape of the burial grounds to its original state for advanced conservation of the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty," the CHA drew the plan as its first project for restoring authenticity of the historic site, by recovering distorted and damaged parts in the site. Before embarking on the project, the CHA obtained topographic date of the site before the formation of the NIS complex and checked its original conditions referring to the Geneaology of Royal Yi Family (Seonwon bogam). Based on the data, the CHA is to kick off restoration of the topography of Mount Cheonjang and the area's hydrosphere to its original shape. The project is expected to recreate an axis of lush woods in the burial site, which goes well with the government's eco-friendly green growth policy, restoring authenticity of the novel World Heritage site. For this, a volume of 48,000㎥ soil is to be poured into the ridge of the mountain, and the removal of concrete structures and replacing foreign flora into traditional species such as pine trees will be carried out before the completion of the project in 2012.