Overseas Cultural Heritage Foundation.
About 210,000 Korean cultural assets have been taken overseas, of which France owns nearly 3,000.
The Overseas Cultural Heritage Foundation was an organization working to retrieve Korean cultural assets previously taken abroad.
"Sigh… Tae-sik, when will we be able to see Jikji in Korea?"
The rooftop of the Overseas Cultural Heritage Foundation.
Secretary-General Lee Tae-gul let out a sigh of cigarette smoke.
Cha Tae-sik, head of the Factual Research Department, shook his head while taking a drag from a cigarette.
"Well...? Wouldn't it be hard to do that in our lifetime?"
"Right? If I have a dream, I want to bring Jikji to Korea before I die, Tae-sik."
"I hope that day comes, too. But the French, who know the Jikji's value better than anyone else, will never give it out."
Jikji Simche Yojeol is translated as the Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests’ Zen Teachings.
The world's oldest movable metal type was produced at Heungdeok Temple in Cheongju.
Baegun, a Buddhist monk, compiled the book containing the teachings of...
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