As June is considered "the Korean Patriots and Veterans Month' as the Korean War also started during June 25th 1950, I decided to introduce one of the most symbolic and patriotic Museum in Korea, The War Memorial of Korea.
The War Memorial of Korea, established back in 1994 by the War Memorial Service Korea Society located in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, exhibits and preserves materials related to the Korean It was established to commemorate the noble sacrifice of patriotic martyrs.
It has a couple of separated exhibition rooms including the Memorial Hall which is destinated for visitors to remember the sacrifice of the patriots who sacrificed their life for the country.
It also has special rooms which are dedicated to different period from the Korean War rooms where different artifact are exhibited from the war that split Korea in two countries to the UN room and donation rooms where the donated artifacts are exhibited.
There is also a special room for Korean War History where you can walk in and go through Korean history events that lead to Korea is now.
(Live 3D exhibition)
Maybe a lot of you already know about the famous turtle ship through which Yi Sun-Shin went to different battles with against Japanese.
You can also see different types of weapons that were used back then as well as the armour of the warriors.
Moving forward we could find an exhibition of Large Industrial War Machines.
I think this room is one of the biggest of the Memorial, as the artifacts exhibited here are quite big. The exhibition includes major combat vehicles, operated by the ROK and the DPRK during the Korean War.
There is also a room dedicated to ROK Armed Forced where visitors can go through a chronological exhibition of the Armed Forced of Korea.
I personally really enjoyed it a lot and I would definitely recommend it to visit.
Address:
29, Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Site:
Ticket price: free
Program:
Tuesday to Sunday 9:30~18:00 (Monday off)
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