Symposium mulls listing of Joseon missions on UNESCO memory program

A symposium is held at the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 1, 2015, to discuss ways of winning the registration on UNESCO's Memory of the World Program in 2017 of goodwill missions sent to Japan by the medieval Joseon Korean kingdom. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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