세계문화유산으로서 하회마을 민속의 문화적 가치

Abstract

Every heritage village is facing the crisis of extinction. One village community is like having numerous museums and libraries at the same time. Consequently, UNESCO is carrying out a policy which designates and preserves heritage villages as World Cultural Heritage. Hahoe village is a traditional village which treasured up the identity of Korean culture, with its excellent location, historical tradition, social structure and cultural originality; and a remarkable village which its universal value is recognized world-wide. When looking at Hahoe village with UNESCO's ‘Evaluation standard for excellent universal value’, it has all five cultural conditions as World Cultural Heritage. The five conditions are the following: the first is Hahoetal, Hahoe mask, as masterpiece made by the genius of human's creativity(StandardⅠ); the second is Hahoetalchum, Hahoe mask dance, which influenced the development of monumental art in Andong region for a long time(Standard Ⅱ); the third is Hahoe Byeolsingut, Hahoe exorcism, is the unique evidence proving the disappeared cultural tradition(StandardⅢ); the forth is the scenery for Confucianism culture, which is an excellent case of cultural heritage for showing the important step of human history(Standard Ⅳ); and the fifth is the landscape and the location of Hahoe village, as the typical place of residence, showing the interactions between human and nature (StandardⅤ). World Cultural Heritage is recognized to be a village with excellent universal value, when more than one out of six evaluation standards are met. It has shown that 5 standards are met after examining the folk culture of Hahoe village with the evaluation standards. Therefore, Hahoe village has the satisfactory values to be registered as World Cultural Heritage.