Seodaemun Prison History Hall and Independence Park

We visited two places that were really near our school on a Sunday and the first is the Seodaemun Prison History Hall which is a living education site for the part of Korean History when Korea was occupied by Japan. The site was originally a real prison used to house political prisoners and is now a museum.

Some disturbing pictures exhibited in the prison...

In front of the prison museum is the Seodaemun Independence Park, which was a site where Korea used to receive Chinese envoys in the olden days. The building inside was later torn down and a granite structure called Independence gate was built in place to symbolize freedom. As the weather was great on that day, we happily took many pictures there. Credits to rx for the photography and editing of photos! =)