- Talk in real time on YouTube Channel, The Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, April 28th, 7 pm -

Under the Cultural Heritage Administration, the Gyeongju National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage (the GNRICH, Director Lee Jong-Hoon) runs a program, ‘Daedam Silla’ meaning ‘sitting down and talking about stories of Silla face to face.’ The ‘Daedam Silla’ will be live-streamed on the GNRICH YouTube channel on April 28th at 7 p.m.
*The GNRICH YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuTWxHZtINg&feature=youtu.be

‘The Daedam Silla,’ launched in 2018, has been run to gather residents together in the evening with a cup of tea and talk about the history of Silla and cultural heritage. This program is presented by the director and researchers of the GNRICH. They will tell residents about historical sites and artifacts of Silla and Silla history in literature and answer residents’ questions. The program has received an excellent response as experts explain stories of excavations sites and cultural heritages, which are hard to see, in plain language. Since last year, it has been changing to an online called ‘LAN line, Daedam Silla’ as it applied an ‘untact’ method, which is doing things without direct contact with others, to prevent the spread of the Covid-19. The program allows anyone interested in Silla history and culture beyond the Gyeongju area could participate.

This time in ‘Daedam Silla’ will talk about Wolseong, a palace of Silla. Lee Jong-Hoon, the Director of the GNRICH, hosts the program, and Silla historians and researchers of Wolseong will perform as storytellers to tell the story of Wolseong from archaeology and literature studies. During the talk, photographs related to the topic will be presented for better understanding. Moreover, if audiences ask their curiosities on a chat window of the YouTube channel, talkers will answer it immediately. 

The stories of Wolseong will be based on five questions that many people are curious about. These questions are as follows; when wolseong was built, what kind of buildings were in Wolseong, there were official documents in the Silla era, what kind of animals were lived in Wolseong and how long Wolseong had been as a palace. Based on these questions, the ‘Daedam Silla’ will present Wolseong through records of Wolseong in literature and excavation researches.

Due to the spread of Covid-19, it is not easy to visit excavation sites and attend guide tours in fields. Therefore, the GNRICH tries to resolve public desire for cultural heritages through ‘LAN line, Daedam Silla.’ Furthermore, the GNRICH will plan to provide an ‘untact’ communication with the public through various ways such as live-streaming the academic conferences and online unveiling the excavation site for preventing the spread of covid-19.