Cultural Restitution
December 1, 2019
SOUTH KOREA
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South Korea
Updated January 2020
Below is a schedule of successful restitutions made by South Korea to a country or community of source. Entries are updated regularly.
April 2017
The Republic of Korea return 11 dinosaur fossils, including those of Tarbosaurus Bataar, smuggled into the country from Mongolia - the first time the Korean Government has returned stolen foreign cultural property to the owner country at government level
January 2017
A 14th cent Buddhist statue, stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012, is to remain in South Korea following a long-running dispute over its ownership
https://culturalpropertynews.org/court-says-statue-600-years-in-japan-should-go-to-to-korean-temple/
July 2015
South Korea returns an 8th cent bronze statue of the Tathagata Buddha, one of two statues stolen from Japan in 2012, to the island city of Tsushima in Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture
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This week’s announcement that Cambridge University has transferred legal ownership of its collection of 116 Benin artefacts to Nigeria could be hugely significant
Britain’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed it will review the exclusion it imposed on national collections that prevents them from returning cultural objects on moral grounds
Six Native American skulls, acquired to advance the pseudoscience of phrenology, have been returned by the University of Edinburgh to the Muscogee Nation, a self-governed Native American Tribal Nation