Picture of the Day: Confucian Woodblocks Added to UNESCO List

This undated photo, released on Oct. 10, 2015, by the Cultural Heritage Administration, shows a printing woodblock for the Collected Works of renowned Confucian scholar Toegye Yi Hwang, which is included in a set of Korea’s Confucian printing woodblocks that UNESCO has added to the “Memory of the World” list. The U.N. body also added to the list a decades-old local TV program to reunite families separated by the Korean War. The woodblocks are comprised of 64,226 pages of 718 kinds of books written by Confucian scholars during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910), when the ideology served as the ruling philosophy. (Yonhap)