A Study on Database Development and an Efficient Utilization Method of Foreign Cultural
Heritage in Korean Museums aims at providing a process of database registration methods,
result analysis and extended suggestions. Although many foreign cultural heritages have been
brought into Korea and by interacting with people from different cultures, accurate current
situation of foreign heritages in Korea was not studied on a national level. It seems to be very
clear that foreign heritages have high utilization in today's multicultural and globalized age. On
september 2015, a research on current state of foreign cultural heritage has launched and
museum registration methods were developed. After two years of this study, Database on
foreign heritages in Korean Museums includes more than 20,000 objects and this study is
currently in progress. This study has a significance in that it is the first attempt to study on
database development and an efficient utilization method of foreign cultural heritage in Korean
Museums on a national level. Therefore, this research contains an agenda to raise awareness
of foreign heritages in Korea with systematic approach and management methods and also
requires data reliability and mutual cooperation for future study.