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cherished in our times, such as social change,
economic system, human rights and democracy.
Technical assistance to representatives of
Member States preparing nominations has been
provided in the form of international cooperation.
In the name of “Memory of the World International
Training Workshop”, Korean National Commission
for UNESCO (KNCU) has organized the assistance
program where international experts of the MoW
Programme and national representatives preparing
for nominations are invited and their communication
to develop the nomination forms is facilitated. This
year, the workshop was held on 5 to 7 September
in Amman, Jordan, with cooperation with Jordan
to occur. For example, when minting a coin along National Commission and Cultural Heritage
with the efforts to create an independent political Administration of the Republic of Korea (CHA).
entity from an empire by a local leader, similar The International Centre for Documentary
actions taken by other leaders in different parts Heritage (ICDH) as a UNESCO Category 2 Centre
of the empire possibly occur; in that sense, the is also expected to undertake the role of assisting
coin contains historic significance of independent the nomination process for countries with a lack of
movements in the international environment. resources or information by supporting education
Social, community or spiritual significance, related to documentary heritage. Such role-taking
according to the MoW Register Companion, refers will be vivified within a few years with holding
to “the attachment to the documentary heritage international workshops on an annual or biannual
of a specific community in the present.”(MoW basis.
Register Companion, 2021, 6)This is to clarify that
the potential documentary heritage in nomination is
recognized by members of a society or community
in the contemporary times, or associated with a
spiritual (religious) property or figure. But it is noted
by experts that such significance should not be
manipulated or fabricated just to fill out the form;
simply, this section should remain clearcut and
definite.
Section 7.3 of the nomination form is the
“Statement of Significance,” which is is usually
understood as world significance. This is
particularly important because experts in
UNESCO’s MoW Programme are most likely to
focus on this section in order to understand how
the item is significant to the world according to
what is written by the nominator and to determine
the item to be inscribed as documentary heritage
in the MoW Register. Moreover, logically, the writing
on this section summates uniqueness, meaning
and other intrinsic values of the document based
on historic and social, community or spiritual
significance mentioned above. In addition, such
significance must be understood from a global
perspective with universal norms or standards

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