RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Culture and the Korea Heritage Service signed an executive program for cooperation at National Palace Museum, Seoul, South Korea, further strengthening collaboration in the field of intangible cultural heritage.
The agreement builds upon the memorandum of understanding signed in Seoul in June 2019 between the Saudi Ministry of Culture and the Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which established a framework for cultural cooperation between the two countries, said the MoC.
The executive program represents a concrete step forward in putting the MoU into practice, with a focus on knowledge exchange, institutional development, and the safeguarding of intangible heritage.
The program was signed by Dr. Maha Abdullah Alsenan, deputy minister of research and cultural heritage, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture, and Yun Soon-ho, director general of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Bureau, representing the Korea Heritage Service.
Under the program, areas of cooperation include capacity building in the digitization of records, development of training programs in digital archiving, and collaborative research on intangible heritage.
