Gangwon

Sokcho Museum

Sokcho Municipal Museum & Sokcho Real Hometown Cultural Village is a public complex in Sokcho, Gangwon, dedicated to the city's substantial "silhyangmin" ("real hometown") refugee heritage. About 30,000 North Korean refugees settled in Sokcho during and after the Korean War — a substantial portion of whom never returned to their original hometowns north of the demarcation line. The complex combines a museum on Sokcho's broader regional history with a reconstructed silhyangmin village showing the original informal housing and community spaces refugees built. Bilingual interpretation contextualizes the divided-Korea narrative through individual family stories. Free entry. About 2 hours. Pair with Sokcho Beach or Seoraksan National Park.