The National Intangible Heritage Center (NIHC, Director Hong-dong Kim), a national institution under the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea, was officially opened in the city of Jeonju, Republic of Korea, in October 2014.\nIntangible cultural heritage is a valuable form of cultural asset that contains greater internal meaning than is visible on the surface, and its importance continues to grow every day. However, due to the non-physical nature of intangible cultural heritage, there are challenges to safeguarding and transmitting it, especially since the cultural element itself can be lost when its bearer passes on.\nCurrently, there are 132 state-designated elements of important intangible cultural heritage in Korea with 174 bearers, and 38 of these have been identified as being in a vulnerable state of viability with poor foundations for transmission or insufficient numbers of bearers.\nThe NIHC fulfills comprehensive functions for safeguarding and strengthening transmission foundations for intangible cultural heritage, including vulnerable elements, while supporting the independent viability and revitalization of traditional arts and crafts.

\nThe Public Association of Kuhhoi Pomir (Pamir Mountains), a UNESCO-accredited NGO, is operating their projects on the territory of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) of the Republic of Tajikistan, which is also called Pamir or figuratively the roof of the world. The Association is actively involved in biodiversity of local ecosystems, conservation and restoration of nature, cultural and historical heritage of mountain communities, public physical and spiritual health, sustainable use of local resources, among others. It also encourages revitalization of cultural and spiritual heritage of population of mountainous locality and participates in the transmission of national traditional knowledge to the new generation.

The Bhabanagara Foundation aims at articulating age-old multidimensional language, literature, education procedure, and cultural performances locally and globally. Committed to revitalization of cultural origins, they conduct events and workshops for the safeguarding of Bengali intangible cultural heritage (ICH) such as Charya Songs. In addition to their Weekly Sadhusanga (discussion and performance on Wednesday afternoon) for the youth, scholars, and practitioners, they publish Bhābanagara: International Journal of Bengali Studies. The foundation has translated and published the Convention for the Safeguarding of the ICH. They hold an inventory of four thousand Bangladeshi living Folk Artists and Artisans.

Since our establishment in Guam in 2004, the Håya Foundation desired to facilitate the creation of a social and cultural environment that would allow for the revitalization of traditional Chamorro culture. The cultural preservation and revitalization efforts, in the beginning, laid the necessary foundation for social re-acceptance of traditional healing practices.\nThe Håya Foundation’s primary goal is to revitalize Guam’s indigenous healing traditions at great risk given the loss with the passing of many healers. We were and may still be at great risk of losing our healing traditions of 4,000 years. During our first eight years, we reached out for help from traditional healers in the neighboring Mariana islands of Rota, Saipan, and Tinian and worked to build and earn the trust of such healers. After a decade of laying the necessary groundwork, we hosted our First Amot Conference in 2012 and brought traditional healers, educators, organizations, government agencies, and policy developers/makers to share information and to learn to improve the health and well-being of our people.\nOur community continues the process of re-establishing its belief and in reliance on its traditional healing practices. We are coming to understand and appreciate our collective responsibility to preserve and promote our traditional healing practices so that they may be practiced, enjoyed, and benefit future generations.