Ancient Korean sites likely to join UNESCO world heritage list

Korea is also campaigning to add one of its own historical sites to that UNESCO World Heritage List.
Will the country's southwestern region,...home to one of its three ancient kingdoms,... make the cut?
Our Park Se-young has the details.
Kings and queens lay buried here,...in the ancient capital of the Baekje kingdom.
Along with the Goguryeo and Silla kingdoms, Baekje shared and fought over the Korean peninsula in the first millennium.
Now, the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration says the Baekje Historic Areas are close to gaining UNESCO approval.
According to the Korean agency, the International Council on Monuments and Sites evaluated the area and submitted a report recommending that it be "inscribed" on the world cultural heritage list.
UNESCO's advisory council says the historic sites are evidence of the kingdom's critical role in the advancement of architecture through close relationships with ancient kingdoms in Japan and China.
Baekje also played a fundamental role in transmitting Buddhism and cultural developments in East Asia.
The Council also noted that the site continues to be well preserved.
If accepted, the Baekje Historic Areas would be Korea's twelfth world heritage site.
Park Se-young, Arirang News.