North Korea and South Korea have come together in an unprecedented quislingism over a shared passion : wrestle . The two land of late made a joint command for traditional Korean wrestling — calledssireumorssirum — to be pick out inUNESCO’sList of Intangible Cultural Heritage , according toThe Guardian .
ab initio , the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea ( North Korea ) and the Republic of Korea ( South Korea ) enter two different bids for UNESCO to recognize their form of wrestling as a ethnical hoarded wealth . The South Korean diligence called the practicessireum , while theNorth Koreanapplication called itssirum , but the recitation they described was the same . Well - known on both sides of the Korean peninsula , ssireum / ssiruminvolves two matman who use retentive fabric knock to try out to force their opponent to the ground .
Because of this , UNESCO ’s director superior general , Audrey Azoulay , convinced the two res publica to mix their applications into a individual joint dictation , which was accepted on November 26 . It ’s now listed on theIntangible Cultural Heritagesite as " Traditional Korean wrestling ( Ssirum / Ssireum ) , " with verbal description from both the North and South Korean dictation .
While the Korean peninsula has beensplitinto two sovereign nation since the conclusion of World War II , North and South Korea have more than a millennia of shared cultural and political history date stamp back to the creation of the first unified Korean state in the 7th C . As a resultant , there are good deal of ethnical mainstay common to the two countries , and North and South Korea have submitted similar bids to the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage before , let in one regardingkimchi . " Kimjang , making and partake kimchi in the Republic of Korea " and " Tradition of kimchi - making in the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea " were granted cultural inheritance status separately ( in2013and2015 ) , for instance . While it ’s not uncommon for country in the same area to submit joint command , this is the first meter North and South Korea have check to do so .
[ h / tThe Guardian ]
