4th ICOMOS Regional Asia Pacific Meeting will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, at the invitation of ICOMOS Korea with support by the Korean Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) and Ministry of Culture and Tourism. This one will address the larger urban settlement with the theme "Heritage and Metropolis in Asia and the Pacific". It will provide another opportunity to examine the follow up on the issues of settings as developed in the Xi'an Declaration (2005) and Vienna Memorandum (2005) in combination with the reflection on historic urban landscapes in an Asian context.