@ARTICLE{10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.1033, 

TITLE={National heritage and transmission of woodwork techniques in contemporary South Korea}, 
  
AUTHOR={Chloé Paberz, }, 
	
JOURNAL={Archaeology, Society and Environment}, 
	
VOLUME={3}, 

NUMBER={Issue 1}, 
	
YEAR={2023}, 

URL={http://openscience.fr/National-heritage-and-transmission-of-woodwork-techniques-in-contemporary-South}, 
	
DOI={10.21494/ISTE.OP.2023.1033}, 
	
ISSN={2752-4507}, 
	
ABSTRACT={In 2017, during a research mission in South Korea, I met a young contemporary artist. She insisted on introducing me to her Master, a woodworker who was about to be given the title of Living National Treasure. However, the Master was not willing to consider her as his disciple, because she would only visit him when in need of help for her artistic projects, whereas a disciple would be expected to engage fully in the learning process, in order to patiently acquire, day after day, the necessary experience to feel, to understand and to work with wood, a living and unpredictable material. The title of Living National Treasure is the highest distinction within a highly formalized ranking system implemented in the 1960s in order to safeguard endangered crafts. This paper studies the connections between such prestigious titles, specific representations of craftsmen, skills, and forms of transmission, and cultural notions regarding wood.}}