Before the pandemic, digital technology in maritime museums began to be used only in part of exhibitions and education. The government had to find a way to continuously provide newly discovered and researched maritime cultural heritage to visitors and students who cannot visit maritime museums due to the pandemic. The easiest way was to provide the museum's existing maritime cultural heritage online so that it could be found and enjoyed. For this purpose, the priority was to process existing digital information into new digital content. The newly created digital content was provided by opening an online museum through collaboration with a portal site and was secondarily linked through YouTube and social media. As the pandemic stabilizes, new exhibition techniques and educational methods are needed to encourage visitors and students who have become too accustomed to digital content to return to museums. This was a turning point when new technologies began to be rapidly introduced into museums by spreading knowledge and experience of maritime cultural heritage through VR and other methods. After the pandemic was completely over, it was established as a museum where traditional and digital exhibition techniques coexist and was reborn as a space where maritime cultural heritage can be enjoyed by children and adults, regardless of age. The experience and know-how gained in countries that have experienced rapid digital change, such as Korea, should be shared with countries that are facing change to determine what they should accept and what they should be cautious about. Through this, museum policies should be established so that all mankind can properly utilize and enjoy cultural heritage.

   Jung Young-Hwa is a researcher and conservation scientist of underwater cultural heritage and has been working at the National Research Institute of Maritime Heritage of South Korea since 2002. The National Research Institute of Maritime Heritage operates the first maritime museum with a 30-year history, opened in 1994, and the second maritime museum, opened in 2018. The organization is responsible for delivering information to customers and students through a single system, including excavation and preservation of underwater cultural heritage, investigation and research of marine cultural heritage, and exhibition, education, and use of artifacts. He worked in the Underwater Archeology Division, West Sea Cultural Heritage Division, and Planning Management Division and is currently in charge of conservation, storage management, and utilization of artifacts in the Conservation and Collection Management Division. Among the projects he was in charge of was developing and utilizing excavation information on underwater cultural heritage as digital content, and he was even in charge of securing the budget for the project.