The OWHC-AP connects with the future of World Heritage Cities
Date : 2023-04-07
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The OWHC Asia-Pacific Regional Secretariat
(OWHC-AP), based in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, visited high schools in the Gochang
and Hwasun County, both of which are World Heritage Cities and the Member
Cities of the OWHC, as part of the OWHC-AP Korean Students’ Association from
April 5th to April 6th to promote the awareness and the value
of World Heritage Cities.
Consisting of a short lecture, discussion
and quiz on the background story of the concept of the World Heritage, the high
school students also learned of the various ways of efforts to preserve and utilize
World Heritage. In addition, the students were introduced to the role and
activities of international organizations and the importance of intercultural
communications. Particularly, students showed keen interest in the upcoming 4th
OWHC-AP Regional Conference and the 2023 OWHC-AP H!GH Heritage Hand-in-Hand Camp.
A shower of gifts and souvenirs at the end of each visit heightened the students’
delight with the OWHC-AP and the OWHC.
The OWHC-AP is planning to visit further
high and junior high schools across Republic of Korea until the end of this
June. Not only will the visits elevate the presence and the importance of the
OWHC and the OWHC-AP in the consciousness of the teenagers, the OWHC-AP will encourage
those students to participate in the upcoming 2023 OWHC-AP H!GH Heritage Hand-in-Hand
Camp to be held alongside the 4th OWHC-AP Regional Conference in
Gyeongju this October. The camp will be a platform comprised of site tours,
discussions, and other activities involving teens from the OWHC-AP member cities
across the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Nak-young Joo, the Mayor of Gyeongju, expressed
his hope by saying that “I’m looking forward to the day when youths, the future
of World Heritage Cities, will walk side by side in Gyeongju, discussing the future
of the Cities and themselves.”