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- Jinju City, which was designated as a UNESCO Creative City for Crafts and Folk Art in November 2019, holds the Jinju Traditional Crafts Biennale and the Jinju World Folk Arts Biennale every two years in order to strengthen exchanges with other UNESCO Creative Cities in the field of crafts and folk art, realize the mission of UNESCO by ensuring that crafts and folk arts from developing countries enter the international stage, promote the development of the performing arts industry and crafts...
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Jinju is a city in southeast of the Republic of Korea with a population of 360,000 and is recognized as one of country’s leading cities of arts and culture. In the crafts field, three items of Gyeongnam Intangible Cultural Heritage are included namely: wooden furniture-making, ornamental knife-making and metal crafts, as well as Jinju’s ...
This is because Jinju aims to contribute to the promotion of cultural diversity and global peace, while sharing its experiences and practices in revitalizing creative industries with member cities. Jinju became a member of the UNESCO Creative City Network (UCCN) in November 2019.
Jinju City is a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Arts, and is carrying out projects to share cultural experiences and knowledge of each creative city and to promote the art of Jinju internationally through strengthening international exchanges and networking as well as the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
Jinju City was officially designated as UNESCO Crafts and Folk Art Creative City on October 30, 2019 (local time).
Jinju is endeavouring to establish a new city model to be recognized as a creative city by preserving local cultural identity, fostering creative industries based on traditional folk arts and crafts, and seeking cultural diversity, social inclusion and respect for the
CONTEXT. On 28 June 2022, to commemorate Jinju City’s completion of its participation as a Pilot City of the UCLG Committee on Culture since 2019, the city held. a closing ceremony that included a final conference, followed by the 7th Jinju International Forum on UNESCO Creative Cities on the next day.
Jinju was designated as an UNESCO Creative City in the field of Crafts and Folk Arts; and Jinju is working on the improvement of facilities at town and village community centres and the expansion of lesson programmes.
