The Historian · Hayoon · Seoul
Seodaemun Prison History Hall
This is the hardest place I take people, and the most necessary. To understand modern Korea you have to stand in the cell blocks where its freedom was paid for.
The Japanese-built colonial prison where Korean independence activists were jailed, tortured and executed from 1908 — preserved intact as a memorial to the occupation.
— Hayoon, The Historian
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