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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Last week, a delegation of Naga people signed a declaration that will lead to the return of 41 Naga ancestral remains currently held in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford