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The United Nations has a special award to a festival in South Korea. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to add South Korea's Lotus Lantern Festival to its list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The festival one of 25 things the UN decided to to its heritage list this year. Some things that UNESCO to its heritage list tangible - this we can them. Examples are the Pyramids in Egypt or Machu Picchu in Peru. If something is intangible, we generally cannot it. Events like South Korea's Lotus Lantern Festival or a dance or a method for weaving baskets examples of intangible heritage.

South Korea's Lotus Lantern Festival a springtime event that is to celebrate Buddha's birthday on April the 8th. It lighting up the world to make things fair for everyone. The festival back two millennia. Historians say there an ancient kingdom in 57BC where royals a temple to see lotus lanterns. Today, it is one of South Korea's biggest festivals. People lanterns with paper and bamboo. They temples with these. Many villages, towns and cities hold parades in which the lanterns are through the streets. A spokesperson said: "We will try to make the festival a cultural heritage that can be by people around the world regardless of their religion."