Outside of a crime or conviction, the only way to prompt the return of cultural properties is to negotiate, said Manlio Frigo, professor of European Union and international law at Italy’s University of Milan. 

Frigo visited Seoul to participate in a forum on the return of cultural property with other world-leading academics in the field, which took place on Tuesday at Plaza Hotel in central Seoul. 

To commemorate recent diplomatic achievements including the repatriation of Korean books from France and Japan, and to establish strategies for the return of more Korean cultural assets scattered throughout the world, the Foreign Ministry co-hosted the forum with the Cultural Heritage Administration and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO.

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