Went to the Democracy and Human Rights Memorial Hall over the weekend

The 민주화운동기념관, or Democracy and Human Rights Memorial Hall, is a museum and memorial in Seoul built around the former 남영동 대공분실, a notorious interrogation center used by South Korea’s military dictatorships to imprison and torture pro-democracy activists

Rather than erase the site, it was preserved as a reminder of the brutality faced by democracy activists during one of the darkest periods in modern Korean history. Today, its preserved interrogation rooms and memorial exhibits honor victims such as 박종철 (Park Jong-cheol) and 김근태 (Kim Geun-tae), whose suffering became symbols of Korea’s fight for democracy