Handok Museum

Handok Museum in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, is a private corporate museum operated by the Handok pharmaceutical group, dedicated to the history of Korean pharmaceutical development, traditional Korean medicine (Korean Medicine, Hanbang), and the broader modernization of Korean pharmacy through the 20th century. The museum houses one of Korea's more substantial private collections on Korean pharmaceutical heritage, including original period apothecary equipment, herbal-medicine texts, colonial-era pharmacy artifacts, and modern pharmaceutical-development documentation. Handok itself is one of Korea's older pharmaceutical companies (founded 1954 through a joint venture with the German Merck & Co.), and the museum's specific focus reflects that dual Korean-modern-pharmaceutical and traditional-Korean-medicine heritage. Bilingual Korean/English interpretation. Modest admission. Allow about 90 minutes. Access: about 20 minutes from Yongin city center by taxi. Pair with the broader Yongin cultural attractions including Korean Folk Village (a substantial reconstructed traditional-village public museum, 30 minutes away), Simgokseowon Confucian Academy (batch 2 verified), and the Yangji Pine Resort (batch 6 verified) for a Yongin cultural-and-family day.