A Measure for Mutual Benefit and Co - existence between UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding System and Korea’s Intangible Cultural Properties Safeguarding System - Focused on Arirang, Kimjang Culture, and Nongak -

This article tries to propose a measure for mutual benefit and co-existence between Korea’s Intangible Cultural Properties Safeguarding System and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding System through studying the orientations focused on Arirang, Kimjang Culture, and Nongak, which were inscribed as UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity among the Korean Intangible Cultural Properties. Korea’s Intangible Cultural Properties Safeguarding System, before the Law of Intangible Cultural Properties Preservation and Promotion established and proclaimed on 4th March 2015, has been maintained the typical maintenance of the designated intangible cultural property and the transmission system focused on its holder.However, intangible cultural heritage, which has been transmitted from generation to generation, specified in the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage established by the UNESCO on 17th October 2003, which is responded by communities and groups into their environment, constantly recreated by interacting the nature and the history, by enabling them to have their identity and continuity promotes the respect of cultural diversity and human creativity. The Safeguarding System of the Intangible Cultural Heritage established by the UNESCO consider the viability in order to ensure and promote performance and transmission from generation to generation to take over intangible cultural heritage the next generation than to produce concrete expressions.In conclusion, for mutual benefit and co-existence between Law of Preservation and Promotion for Intangible Cultural Properties and Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Government of Korea should have to modify the safeguarding system of the intangible cultural properties in order to ensure and promote performance and transmission focused on ‘the principle of typical maintenance’ and ‘the viability of a community’.