As a military facility symbolizing the division of South and North Korea and the Cold War, the GP is the first registered cultural property.
The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on the 8th that after the military armistice agreement was concluded in 1953, the first observation watch station built in the southern part of Korea was registered as a cultural property on the eastern coast of No. 1, Deoksan-ri Mountain in Goseong-gun, Gangwon Province.
The East Coast Monitoring Station was supposed to be demolished in accordance with the military agreement for the implementation of the Panmunjom Declaration signed on September 19th last year, but preservation was decided considering the historical symbolism and possibility of using it.
The Cultural Heritage Administration conducted a field survey of experts in February to understand the history of the watchdog station, and experts rated it as a sense of presence and tranquility that could feel the era of the Cold War era.
The officials of the Cultural Heritage Administration also emphasized that "It is very valuable to demonstrate the division of the South and North Korea and the process of the Cold War, and to utilize it as a facility to inform the importance of inter-Korean reconciliation and peace."
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South and North Korean division symbol 'Gosung East Coast GP' cultural property
2019-04-08T00:45:32.533Z
A watchdog station, a military facility symbolizing the division of the South and the Cold War, becomes the first registered cultural property. The Cultural Heritage Administration announced on the 8th that after the military armistice agreement was concluded in 1953, the first observation watch station built in the southern part of Korea was registered as a cultural property on the eastern coast of No. 1, Deoksan-ri Mountain in Goseong-gun, Gangwon Province.
Source: sbskr