Seodaemun Prison History Hall Review

I didn’t expect it to surprise me, but it was actually very well designed. It’s not just empty rooms, but shows and illustrates what every room, every building represents during that active period. The place is also big. It shows what it was like before, and the struggle of Koreans for independence. It explains why Koreans are so patriotic and proud of their own independence. The location of the Xidaemun Criminal Justice Institute’s Historical Hall is good, just off the Dongnimun subway station. I took my teenage son here to see how he felt and saw the history of the Japanese occupation and the resistance that South Korea launched at that time. The day before, we both visited the Seoul History Museum, but the exhibits there were too abstract, and the visit to the Xidaemun Criminal Justice Institute History Museum made all history alive. Walking around this once held political prisoners really can learn and learn a lot about the past. The wish here is that more exhibits and information can be translated into English, and there are tributes from students, workers, pro-democracy activists, but they are also written in Korean, I really hope to translate into English so that we can understand.