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Eighteen objects showing the time-honoured history, brilliant culture and life customs of the Korean nation have been registered as new national and local intangible cultural heritage elements in the DPRK.

Officials of the National Authority for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (NAPCH) of the DPRK, in collaboration with various units, worked hard to find out intangible cultural heritage elements. In the course of it, they registered 14 objects such as Yangdok hot spring culture, the method of making Koryo medicine and horse-riding as national ICH elements.

The technique of making Kyongsong ceramics, mud-snail industrial arts, folk song "Hoeyang Nilliri" and rice boiled with oysters were registered as local ICH elements.