Issues: Museums and Memorials

The Independence Hall of Korea

Opened to the public on Korean Liberation Day (August 15) in 1987, the Independence Hall of Korea in Cheonan-city (Chungcheongnam-province) is dedicated to the full range of Korean history.  The Hall depicts the efforts of Korean ancestors in overcoming national crises throughout Korean history, focusing mainly on the independence movements of the Japanese colonial period.  As the biggest exhibition facility in Korea, Independence Hall has seven exhibition halls as well as two archives and an exhibition of the remaining structure of the former Japanese Government-General Building.

The Exhibition Halls cover the timeline from the Prehistoric Age to the Liberation of Korea in 1945 and are divided into the following:
1) The Hall of National Heritage
2) The Hall of the Nationalist Movement
3) The Hall of Japanese Aggression
4) The Hall of the March First Independence Movement
5) The Hall of the Independence War
6) The Hall of the Social and Cultural Movement
7) The Hall of the Korean Provisional Government

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