Although Ahn Jung-geun, one of the nation’s foremost independence fighters, died a martyr after being executed by the Japanese aggressors at 

Lushun Prison in March 1910, the Korean government had not been able to pay a due respect to his activities for many decades during the turbulent 

periods of the Korean War, the April 19th Revolution and the May 16th military coup d’etat even after Korea’s liberation from the 

Japanese colonial rule.

Under the order of President Park Chung Hee in October 1970 and, thanks to the donations of the people who 

respect Ahn, the original Ahn Jung Geun Memorial Museum was founded in the present site located in Mountain 

Namsan, downtown Seoul. As the museum had become worn out and could not meet the volume of the items 

on display due to its smaller size, President Roh Moo-hyun ordered to rebuild a museum at the request of the 

Ahn Jung-geun Society and the Korea Liberation Association.

With the launch of a new museum building in 2010, we are fully dedicated to displaying the articles left by Ahn 

and other related materials and documents to the public and enhancing the thoughts and the spirits of Ahn 

further. We hope that the new museum will serve as a hall for a living lesson that could reawaken the value of 

the existence of the nation and the people for the young generation and their descendent, could cherish those 

patriots who sacrificed themselves to the cause of the country’s independence and the people’s prosperity as 

our real pride, and finally could help establish a model and essence of life for the Korean people.

October 26, 2010

Kim Hwang-sik, chief director of the Ahn Jung-geun Society.