Nat'l Museum of Korea Democracy to open June 10

Nat'l Museum of Korea Democracy to open June 10

This photo, taken May 20, 2025, shows Room 509 at the now-defunct Anticommunist Office of the National Police Agency in Seoul, 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. The Korea Democracy Foundation, a state-run organization that carries out projects to memorialize the democratization movement and inherit its spirit, has transformed the facility into the National Museum of Korea Democracy that will open June 10, timed with the 38th anniversary of the June 10, 1987, democratization movement that followed the death of Park at the facility while being interrogated by police and resulted in the country's introduction of the direct presidential election system. (Yonhap)

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