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North-south exhibition and symposium held

KCNA

    Mt. Kumgang, July 30 (KCNA) -- A north-south exhibition and symposium on the art of colorful painting were held at Mt. Kumgang Resort on July 29 under the co-sponsorship of the Central Committee of the Korean Buddhist Federation and the Headquarters for the National Community of the Buddhist Chogye Order of South Korea. The art of colorful painting, one of the ancient cultural heritages of the Korean nation, boasts its identity proper to the nation as it has a peculiar style of pattern formation and unique technique of using colours.
    The participants looked round painting materials, tools, technological books, photographs and reproduced works before exchanging experience and views they gained in inheriting and developing national cultural heritages and preserving them.
    At the symposium delegates of the north and the south presented papers on the subject "common tasks of the north and the south to inherit and develop our ancient art of colourful painting".
    Speakers said that it is an important task to intensify the work of studying and preserving the art of colorful painting in the light of the peculiar nature of this heritage in which it is losing its glory with the passage of time, the painful history of the nation in which precious artifacts were stolen, destroyed and looted by outsiders and the present reality in which the country remains divided.
    The heritages related to this art, whether they are in the north or south, are precious cultural treasures that belong to the nation which should be reunified as one, they stressed.
    They called on the scholars and experts in this field in the north and south to strengthen mutual solidarity and cooperation in the efforts to protect, preserve, inherit and develop those heritages.
    The participants conducted a joint study of the site of Singye Temple in Mt. Kumgang on July 30 and toured the area of Kuryong Pond.