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In the course of its history, after a long time of systematic destruction, South Korea has developed a process of patrimonial and cultural re-appropriation adapted to the socio-cultural and economic context through different stages. Long-time development planning has enabled Korea to invent new concepts and to create new technologies designed to keep and protect their cultural heritage. As a result, the results of the combination of traditional culture and new technologies are of artistic benefit, with sometimes very surprising results for those unfamiliar with this socio-cultural environment. The trend towards globalization and internationalization is present, but a nationalistic conservatism remains a recurrent limitation. This study shows a global view of the policy process of re-appropriation since the independence from Korea to the present day. South Korea has established an institutional framework at different levels of management to protect and even improve their endangered cultural heritage. Korea continues to offer the most striking and efficient aspects of their cultural heritage program (among them the notion of “Immaterial Cultural Good”) to the international community. The history of the Korean writing system is a good example of the evolution of a typical “immaterial cultural treasure.”
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AbstractJuly 2003 has marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Korean War (1950-1953) ; a conflict depicted, among other things, as « the turning point of the Cold War ». Taking the lives of more than three million people (including 33,000 Americans), this episode carried momentous consequences for the United States which, it must be noted, provided approximately half of ground troops sent by the United Nations. The basic objective of this article, which is based on various sources, is to examine the social, cultural, economical and political effects of this war on the American nation. Although the Korean conflict generated in its wake non negligible repercussions on the social, cultural and economical life, it appears, however, that it was in the political arena that its impact was the most significant and far-reaching.
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