With the history of Buddhist culture transmitted for a thousand years of the Shilla, the Kyongju area had seen the golden age of the Buddhist culture in the fields of architecture, sculpture, paintings, artistic handicraft, folk customs, etc. In Korea...
With the history of Buddhist culture transmitted for a thousand years of the Shilla, the Kyongju area had seen the golden age of the Buddhist culture in the fields of architecture, sculpture, paintings, artistic handicraft, folk customs, etc. In Korea, therefore, the Kyongju area having graceful cultural assets has been considered not only as the most historic place where national consciousness can be inspired and the national long and glorious history can be taught but also as the most preferable tourist attraction. In a tend of social changes, however, the number of tourists to the place of historic interest has decreased year by year.
This paper is intended to study the problems facing the Kyongju area through a fact-finding analysis and to suggest the methods for efficient use a culture assets in Kyongju for tourist resources the Specific purposes of this paper are :
1. To stress the need to renew our appreciation of the value of cultural assets as tourist resources,
2. To find problems facing the Kyongju area through a fact, finding analysis of tourists to the historic place, and
3. To suggest the methods for efficient use of cultural assets in Kyongju for tourist resources on the basis of analysis
There will be many reason for yealy decrease in number of tourists visiting the Kyongju area, this paper, however, on the basis of important evidencing materials and interviews with the working level of the authorities concerned, suggests 10 methods for efficient use of its cultural assets for tourist resources as follows : use of its cultural assets for tourist resources as follows
1. Harmony beteween projects for making a city and for preserving cultural assets.
2. Efficient use of cultural heritages for tourist resources
3. Development of sight-seeing course (rute) to place of historic interest by national park districts in Kyongju.
4. Promotion of sisterhood beetween Kyongju and other cities home and abroad.
5. Expansion of the administrative organization of culture and tourism in Kyongju and supplement of executive experts.
6. Diversified promotion of cultural assets as tourist resources.
7. Training of professional tourist guiders to cultural assets in Kyongju.
8. Preparation of measures for overcomming the chronic financial difficulties in preservation and management of historic relics.
9. Preparation Promotion of cultural assets as tourist resources.
In order to fuefil the 9 suggestions above-mentioned, all the parties including the government authorities concerned, the city of Kyongju, the organizations concerned with sight-seeing to cultural assets and local residents should be in an active cooperative system with political and administrative supports. In addition, not only the value of cultural assets as tourist resources should be newly appreciated but also a right national conscioueness and historical view should be inspired through preservation and thansmission of national traditions and cultral assets. Such multilateral efforts will result in a new change our cultural history on the verge of 2000.