광주학생독립운동기념회관

Gwangju Student Independence Movement Memorial Hall is a public memorial museum in Gwangju, dedicated to the Gwangju Student Independence Movement of November 1929 — a major student-led protest against Japanese colonial rule that began in Gwangju and spread across Korea, becoming one of the most significant student-and-citizen resistance movements of the colonial period. The hall walks visitors through the events leading up to the November 1929 protest, the student-and-civic mobilization across Korea that the Gwangju protests inspired, the major figures of the movement, and the broader independence-movement context of late-1920s colonial Korea. Period photographs, archival documents, period uniforms, and reconstructed period rooms anchor the displays. Best for travelers interested in modern Korean history and the colonial-era resistance movement, paired with broader Gwangju historic-and-cultural itineraries.