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The Independence Hall of Korea in Cheonan is the country's largest history museum devoted to the modern history of Korea, with a focus on the independence movement under Japanese colonial rule. A public fundraising campaign began in 1982 i…
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On a hillside in Hannam-dong, Leeum Museum of Art is a private museum run by the Samsung Foundation of Culture that shows national-treasure-level Korean antiquities alongside Korean and international contemporary art. Its buildings were de…
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목포시
The Mokpo Modern History Museum occupies two early 20th-century buildings in the former Japanese settlement at the foot of Yudalsan. Building 1 is the old Japanese Consulate in Mokpo and Building 2 the former Mokpo branch of the Oriental D…
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부여군
In Gyuam-myeon, on the west bank of the Baengma River at Buyeo, red-pillared palaces with bright painted eaves spread across a wide site. Baekje Cultural Land is Korea's largest historical theme park, a full-scale re-creation of the palace…
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On a hillside in Daeyeon-dong, right next to the UN Memorial Cemetery, Busan Museum tells the story of the city from the Old Stone Age to the democracy movement under one roof. Busan has chapters no other Korean city shares, from the Joseo…
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서귀포시
This public museum is devoted to a single fruit, the citrus that Jeju is famous for. Galleries cover its history, cultivation and industry, while a glasshouse behind the building shows citrus varieties from around the world bearing fruit i…
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서울특별시
The Seodaemun Museum of Natural History sits at the foot of Ansan mountain in Seoul. Step inside and you are greeted by a sperm whale suspended from the ceiling of the central hall and the skeleton of Acrocanthosaurus, a meat-eating dinosa…
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Seodaemun Prison History Hall is a modern prison built under Japanese rule and preserved as a museum. It opened in 1908 and held prisoners for almost 80 years until 1987: independence activists such as Kim Gu, Yu Gwan-sun and Ahn Chang-ho,…
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서울특별시
At the end of the Deoksugung stone-wall road stands a red-brick facade with three round arches: the Seosomun main building of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA). The front is a 1928 courthouse, and behind it sit modern galleries for contempora…
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서울특별시
Right in front of Gyeonghuigung Palace, a short walk west of Gwanghwamun, the Seoul Museum of History traces more than 600 years of the city, from Joseon-era Hanyang to the boom years of modern Seoul, under one roof. Admission is free, and…
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부산
When the Korean War forced the government out of Seoul, it made Busan its provisional capital. The Provisional Capital Memorial Hall in Bumin-dong, Seo-gu, is the residence where President Syngman Rhee lived and worked during those years,…
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Jangsaengpo, once Ulsan's busiest whaling port, is home to Jangsaengpo Whale Museum, the only whale museum in Korea. Huge whale skeletons, whaling gear and models of the old whaling village tell the long story of whales and people here. Th…
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The War Memorial of Korea is a large museum of military history on the former site of the Army Headquarters in Yongsan, Seoul. It covers the wars fought on the Korean Peninsula from the Three Kingdoms period to the present, above all the K…
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서귀포시
At the Jeju Aerospace Museum in Andeok-myeon, Seogwipo, real aircraft fill a huge exhibition hall, some parked on the floor and some hanging in the air. With an aviation history hall showing 26 real aircraft, an astronomy and space hall an…
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청주시
In 1377 a Buddhist book printed at a temple in Cheongju quietly changed the history of printing. It was Jikji, the oldest surviving book in the world printed with movable metal type. The Cheongju Early Printing Museum stands right next to…
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용인시
The Korean Folk Village in Giheung-gu, Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, is an open-air folk museum and traditional culture theme park. Opened on 3 October 1974, it was Korea's first open-air folk museum and recreates a late Joseon village on abo…
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대전광역시
Inside Daedeok Science Town in Daejeon, the Currency Museum of Korea was opened in 1988 by the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO), the company that actually makes the country's money. It was Korea's first museum devot…