The war diary of Joseon Dynasty naval hero Admiral Yi Sun-sin and the archives of the New Community Movement in the 1970s have been accepted to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register list.

UNESCO approved the additions in Gwangju on Tuesday during the eleventh meeting of the International Advisory Committee to the UNESCO Memory of the World.

The committee said Admiral Yi’s war diary, or Nanjung Ilgi, which was written during the Japanese invasions in the late 1590s, is “without equal in world history as a commander's battlefield accounts.”

It said the personal journal details the daily combat situations, the admiral's personal views and feelings, observations on the weather, topographical features of battlefields and the lives of common people.

The committee described the New Community Movement, or Saemaul Movement, archives as a comprehensive record of the rural modernization movement carried out in some 34-hundred villages across the nation. It said the archives serve as a valuable source for developing nations that are seeking to combat poverty and develop rural areas.

The new additions bring South Korea's total of registered heritages on the Memory of the World Register to eleven.