National Museum of Korean Democracy
Yongsan District, South Korea
The National Museum of Korean Democracy is a museum in Namyeong-dong, Seoul, South Korea. The National Museum of Korean Democracy was initially built in 1976 as the "Nam young-dong Anti-Communist Interrogation Office" for the police department by the architect Kim Swoo-geun. It functioned as a torture chamber for over a decade until the June Democratic Struggle, and was transformed into a Human Rights Center in 2005. Ownership of the property was transferred to the Korean Democracy Foundation in 2018, which then converted the building into a museum for democracy and human rights. The building is seven stories tall and made of black bricks. The fifth floor, marked by a row of slitted windows, houses the majority of the interrogation spaced where suspects were confined and tortured. The space now recreates the arrangements for viewing by visitors to the museum.
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