It was not until the proclamation of the “Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Act” (August, 1990) that academic exchanges and cooperation on history and culture became conceivable between South and North Koreas. In due course, the South-North Joint Declaration ( June 15, 2000), on which the cultural field is specified among those of cooperation and exchanges, and the 2007 South-North Summit Declaration (October 4, 2007), which identifies history as a distinct area for further cooperation and exchanges, have made it possible to set up a joint project on the history and culture of the ancient kingdom Koguryo. The June 15th Declaration marked a watershed in the history of the academic exchange between two Koreas: the previous method of dialogue—mediated contacts in a third country—gave way to a new stage in which Koreans began to take the initiative in direct interchanges in line with a growing mood of reconciliation and cooperation. In the 1990s no more than four contacts—and even not unmediated ones at that— took place, the frequency of which has increased up to twenty times since the year 2000 (seven academic conferences, seven exhibitions, four projects of excavation and preservation, and two broadcast cooperation).