38th anniv. of 1987 democratization movement

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik offers a flower inside Room 509 at the now-defunct Anticommunist Office of the National Police Agency, a notorious symbol of state violence during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, in which student activist Park Jong-chul was tortured to death, at the National Museum of Korea Democracy in Seoul on June 10, 2025, during a ceremony to mark the 38th anniversary of the June 10, 1987, democratization movement that led to the country's introduction of the direct presidential election system. The anticommunist office has been transformed into the museum. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

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