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100 Cultural Symbols of Korea
List complied by the government of South Korea to represent Korean culture / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 100 Cultural Symbols of Korea[1][2] (Korean: 백대 민족문화상징; Hanja: 百大 民族文化象徵; RR: Baekdae Minjongmunhwasangjing; MR: Paektae Minjongmunhwasangjing) were selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (at the time of selection, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism) of South Korea on 26 July 2006, judging that the Korean people are representative among cultures formed based on spatial and temporal homogeneity from the past to the present.[3]