The monument of the national treasury came out of the water!

According to ISNA, a rare copy of the Legal Book of the Choosan era, titled “Permanent Yungol” (the Great Ming Law), which was registered in South Korea as a national treasure in 2008, was eliminated from the list of national value -based cultural artifacts, which was done for the first time.

The South Korean Cultural Heritage Organization in the official newspaper announced that the book “Great Ming Law” has been canceled as a national treasure; An unprecedented move that was followed by disclosing the stolen version of this historic version.

According to officials, the cancellation of the registration was followed by a criminal order and the execution of the punishment for the person who had introduced the work as a family heritage with inaccurate information.

This book, published in the Ming dynasty of China around the year, was one of the foundations in the formation of the criminal law in Korea. The version introduced as a treasure was the only remaining version of this work.

The historical importance of the book was highlighted when the owner of a private museum in North Gyung Sang province claimed that this version was kept from generation to generation in his family and began to register it as a treasure.

But just four months after receiving the title of “Treasure”, the book was at the center of a criminal case.

In a special operation to combat the smuggling of cultural heritage, officials discovered that the book was actually a stolen work, according to the Korea Jung. Police investigations showed that the owner of the museum in year 2 had purchased the book for $ 5 million (about $ 6,000) from a stolen dealers.

The museum’s owner is said to have promised the dealer to pay 5 million wons if he received the treasure title, but after the promise, he refused to pay extra. Following this, the dealer felt betrayed and revealed the secret of the book’s theft.

In year 3, the court sentenced the owner of the museum to three years in prison for violating the Cultural Heritage Law.

According to the South Korean Cultural Heritage Organization, the main owners of the book were the descendants of the Rio clay in Gyungju, which was kept at the Confucian School of Yukshin Dang for years.

In year 3, the Rio family informed local authorities that four cultural works, including the book “The Great Ming Law” and the school’s wooden panel, were missing. The robbery was officially reported to the Cultural Heritage Organization in year 6.

However, the relevant organization did not realize that the provided version was the same as the theft.

Despite the removal of this work from the list of treasures, officials emphasized that the cultural and historical value of the book had not been destroyed. If the ownership of the book is returned to the person or the legal entity, it is possible to register it as a treasure.

The Cultural Heritage Organization pointed out that although the process of registering this work was wrong, the book itself is still historically and culturally valuable and can return to the country’s treasures if a new legal process goes through.