What heritage does the future hold for South Korea? This chapter looks into current efforts to “modernize” cultural heritage thinking that aim to decide now what is to be preserved in the future. By doing so, these initiatives break away from existing heritage thought that is based on preserving now what is left from the past. With terms such as “future heritage” and “provisional heritage” emerging in the South Korean heritage landscape, recent years have seen an encroachment of what used to be considered as something from the past—cultural heritage—onto the present. Firstly, this chapter traces developments in heritage conservation policy and practice over roughly the last two decades in South Korea, which has resulted in lowering the age criterion for what is to be considered heritage, which has eventually begun to touch upon the present. Secondly, we investigate how the premises of projects involved with these developments such as the Seoul Future Heritage Project and the new category of provisional cultural properties relate to existing perceptions of heritage in order to assess the novelty of their approach.