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The World Heritage system has been significantly influenced by 40 years of history since UNESCO put in place the World Heritage Convention in 1972. As of 2014, a total of 1,007 World Heritage Sites are listed: 779 cultural, 197 natural, and 31 mixed proper-ties. Of the 779 cultural properties, 185 are fortress and city wallshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture, which exceeds a quarter of cultural properties. In Korea, Hwaseong Fortress and Namhansanseong were designated UNESCO World Heritage in 1997 and 2014 while Seoul Hanyang City Wall is part of the Tentative List in order to qualify for inclusion in the List. The most critical factors to decide whether Seoul City Wall is qualified for World Heritage properties is to explain how properly it meets the requirement of six criteria for cultural heritage. This study desires to find the Outstanding Universal Value(OUV) of Seoul Hanyang City Walls for registration as the World Heritage. To achieve it, the study reviewed a chang-ing process of 6 Criteria of OUV specified in 1980’s Operational Guideline, and analyzed registration tendency and OUV criteria of previously listed World Heritage fortresses and city walls. Especially, with regard to the types of a large-scale city walls which are similar with Seoul City Walls, this study drew an implication for Seoul City Walls by comparing between domestic proposals on OUV criteria and ICOMOS evaluation results. As a result of analysis, implications for registration strategy of Seoul City Walls are as follows. 1) Criteria 1 and 6 whose acception rate is low are not recommendable, and criteria 2, 3, 4, and 5 are the proper categories to explain Seoul City Walls’ Outstanding Universal Value. 2) Based on criterion 2 which emphasizes interchange of human values, it is necessary to emphasize that Seoul City Wall inherited remarkable tradition of Korean Peninsula and its geopolitical characteristics on constructing cities by using natural topography wisely, being influenced by Chinese Confucianism and feng shui. 3) In case of criterion 3, it is necessary to emphasize that Seoul City Wall is a heritage maintaining most part of its original shape although Seoul City Wall experienced 500 years of the capital in Joseon Dynasty followed by over 100 years of post-Josean era; Japanese imperialism, Korean War, the rapid urbanization, and threats from new development. In addition, it is necessary to explain that all of the written documents of square stone and castle gate are the clear evidence that show the civilization and cultural tradition of the time. 4) Based on criterion 4, it is necessary to emphasize that Seoul City Wall is, in com-parison with Chinese fortresses on the flat land, a unique ensembles of construction technologies that built the city walls and roads by using natural topography such as mountains and hills. 5) Concerning criteria 5 and 6, deeper discussion is needed for which criterion (or both) to be selected, and strategic judgement whether focusing on as many criteria or strate-gically selected criteria while explaining the value of Seoul city wall. 6) Most importantly, it is necessary to see it in global citizens’ perspectives and to de-scribe it in ICOMOS and World Heritage Committee’s view.