UNESCO will build its new International Center for Documentary Heritage in Korea.

The center will sit near the site in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, where the world's oldest surviving metal-printed work, the Jikji Simche Yojeol, was created.

The decision was made in a general conference at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Monday. It had already been approved unanimously by the UNESCO Executive Board in October.

Since 1992, UNESCO has made efforts to protect documents on the Memory of the World Register from war, terrorism, natural disasters, and hacking. That means the center has to be built at a site that is considered relatively safe and stable.