A mountain fortress southeast of Seoul has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
 
The World Heritage Committee decided during its 38th session in Qatar on Sunday to include the Namhansanseong fortress on the list.
 
The committee said that the  Namhansanseong “embodies a synthesis of the defensive military engineering concepts of the period, based on Chinese and Japanese influences and changes in the art of fortification following the introduction of gunpowder weapons.”
 
The addition of the fortress gives South Korea a total of eleven sites on the World Heritage list. Other sites include Seokguram Grotto, Bulguk Temple and Changdeok Palace.
 
If North Korean sites are included, then Korea has 14 total sites on the list.