@article{6239,
  title = {Current Status of the Private Medical Sector as the Protected Target for Intangible Heritage and the Direction of Future Collection and Record Research},
  abstract = {Private medical culture embodies a lengthy history of maintaining health and combating disease. While it is “folk medicine” in an actual sense, the basis of private medical culture is characterized by its direct and indirect melange of unique heuristic knowledge of the private sector, which has been accumulated through the history of the subject area, and new knowledge, including contemporary medicinal knowledge by period.This has been a living culture that has not been highly regarded in terms of its social, academic, or cultural-policy aspects. Recently, it has drawn attention as a political issue under UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage system, and the protection of genetic resources and traditional knowledge. There has been research and investigation into the protection of traditional knowledge by government authorities related to genetic resources, and the Cultural Heritage Administration has taken steps to legislate the protection of intangible cultural heritage. In addition, the National Intangible Heritage Center is in the process of planning the Comprehensive Survey of the Korean Intangible Heritage.Although it has been publicly announced as an intangible heritage under the revised Cultural Properties Protection Act and the newly enacted Act on Safeguarding and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the terminologies differ between “Korean medicinal knowledge” and “private medicinal knowledge,” respectively. The actual enforcement of the Act on Safeguarding and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Heritage also seems to be lacking, given the multi-layered and variable characteristics of the private medical culture.Surveys by other governmental authorities into the traditional knowledge of medicinal resources focus on its practicability, structure, and applicability, and thus are mainly limited to folk remedies that are therapeutic measures.The future survey of the National Intangible Heritage Center shall be an overall collection and record work encompassing intellectual, behavioral, and expressive systems, and material culture, while working closely with other governmental authorities under the wider theme of private medical culture based on locality and cultural variability.The future survey should not be for the purpose of applying the Act on Safeguarding and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Heritage, but be based on a pure willingness to collect intangible heritage; it should provide the opportunity to archive all of the medical culture of Koreans, such as Korean medicine, western medicine, paramedicine, and so on.},
  year = {2016},
  journal = {Korean Journal of Intangible Heritage},
  volume = {1},
  pages = {79-120},
  issn = {2508-5905},
}