Arirang was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2012, with Jindo Arirang counted among its representative regional variants.
A song once sung within a particular region has now gained the world's recognition as a song carrying the emotional heritage of the entire Korean people. This was an event that reaffirmed that Jindo's regional sound was never only its own, but part of a larger cultural root shared across Korea.