1. Preiod : HERITAGE: TIMELESS TIME - THE 2ND K-HERITAGE IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION

2. Date : July 20 – July 29, 2026

3. Time : 10:00 - 18:00 (Last Entry: 17:00)

4. Venue : BEXCO Exhibition Center 1, Hall 3B

<About Exhibition>

The 2nd K-Heritage Immersive Exhibition, HERITAGE: TIMELESS TIME, is a monumental media art exhibition that reinterprets Korea’s national heritage through digital technology and immersive content. As a part of the “K-Heritage House,” the premier side event especially organized for the 48th World Heritage Committee, the exhibition incorporates the philosophy and spatial structure of the traditional Korean space, hanok. Inspired by jungjeong, the center courtyard, the space symbolizes the connection between people, time, and cultural heritage.

  Visitors enter through a diagonally structured gate and encounter the kinetic artwork Giwa: Parametric. The exhibition continues with Time of Yunseul, inspired by the luminous beauty of mother-of-pearl lacquerware; From Nature, which captures the craftsmanship behind traditional artifacts; and the Immersive Uigwe series, a digital regeneration of the UNESCO Memory of the World. The award-winning media artwork Threads of Connection, recognized by the Red Dot and iF Design Awards, is also featured.

  At the heart of the exhibition is Timeless Time, an immersive experience that reflects the enduring value of world heritage across the past and the present. Through this exhibition, visitors are invited to feel the passage of time embedded within cultural heritage and experience the profound emotion and resonance that transcend generations.

○ GIWA: PARAMETRIC / Winner of the 2025 Red Dot Design Award

  - Giwa, traditional Korean roof tiles, form an architectural surface that has long existed within the Korean landscape, meeting rain and wind, seasons and time. The layered curves of the tiles flow like waves, while light and shadow slowly pass across their surface. This work is a kinetic artwork that reinterprets the rhythm and flow of traditional roof tiles through a contemporary lens.

Countless swaying tile pieces shift endlessly with the movement of the wind, shimmering like a vast field sunlight glittering on water throughout the space. Within this movement, visitors encounter the sense of openness, breath, and time embedded in Korean architecture.

○ TIME OF YUNSEUL

  - The colors of mother-of-pearl are reborn as a landscape motif. Within a natural space where waterfalls flow and plants and animals coexist, the peaceful sensibility is brought to life. Just as our ancestors once found calm in nature, visitors are invited to set aside the noise of the city for a moment and experience a sense of ease within this digitally rendered space of nature and tranquility.

○ FROM NATURE

  - This media artwork uses artificial intelligence (AI) to depict the birth of traditional Korean crafts — including ceramics, wooden furniture, textiles, and metalwork — from elements of nature such as forests, fire, and the sea, expressed through colorful particles.

By encountering the delicate beauty of these crafts on a vast screen, rather than viewing them only from a distance beyond museum display cases, visitors can experience them with a renewed sense of wonder.

○ IMMERSIVE UIGWE

  - A unique form of documentary heritage, the "Uigwe" is a collection of Royal Protocols of the over 500 year-long Joseon Dynasty, that both records and prescribes through prose and illustration the major ceremonies and rites of the royal family. The collection of Uigwe was inscribed in UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register in 2007, recognising it as documentary heritage of global importance.

Beyond their role as historical records, the Uigwe served as a means for the state to commemorate and preserve its own memory. Among them, ‘Gillye’ refers to ancestral rites honoring the achievements of past generations and affirming the legitimacy of the royal lineage, while ‘Hyungnye’ documents the highly regulated funeral procedures for kings and queens.

Reborn as media art, Immersive Uigwe unfolds beyond the fixed pages of historical records, revealing the enduring and transformative sensibility embedded within these royal ceremonies.

○ THREADS OF CONNECTION / Winner of the 2025 Red Dot Design Award, Winner of the 2026 iF Design Award

  - This multi-sided media artwork uses 146 national heritage 3D assets held by the Korea Heritage Service to reveal the beauty and renewed value of Korean heritage.

Composed of five parts — ‘Discovering Connection’, ‘The Value of Connection’, ‘The Harmony of Connection’, ‘A Feast of Connection’, and ‘The Expansion of Connection’ — the work invites visitors to experience cultural heritage, intangible heritage, and even the intricate details of traditional architecture within a multidimensional space.

○ TIMELESS TIME

  - At the heart of the installation, a monumental LED monolith and the surrounding panoramic screens diffuse light throughout the space, presenting a creative and condensed journey through the passage of time inscribed within Korea’s National Heritage.

Structured around Jeju Volcanic Island and Lava Tubes, Seokguram Grotto, and Jongmyo Shrine, the work weaves together a single narrative of natural formation, human ingenuity, and the transmission of cultural memory. Through the evolving interplay of light, spatial form, and architectural structure, it evokes the processes by which heritage is created, preserved, and carried forward across generations.

Immersed in a dynamic environment of light and sound, visitors encounter the enduring significance of Korea’s National Heritage, experiencing a continuum of time in which nature, culture, and memory converge.

○ K-HERITAGE: THE ROYAL PROCESSION OF JOSEON

  - A scene from ‘Hwaseong Haenghaengdo’, the eight-panel folding screen depicting King Jeongjo’s royal procession to Suwon in 1795, is recreated as media art. Placed at the end of the exhibition, the work leads visitors outward, creating the sensation of joining the procession across time. As visitors leave the exhibition alongside the royal procession, they carry with them the joy and lasting impression of Korea’s national heritage.