Nam-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City, is recruiting participants for the Democracy and Human Rights History Tour, which involves taking a train to visit living historical sites.
According to Nam-gu on the 26th, the 2024 Democracy and Human Rights History Tour train will depart from Hyochon Station on April 13. The destinations of this history tour are Hadong-gun in Gyeongnam and Gurye-gun in Jeonnam.
Participants will visit the literature museum that houses the life and belongings of Park Kyung-ri, a representative novelist of modern literature, as well as the traditional house of Choi Champan, the main setting of the epic novel Toji.
They will also move to Yeongoksa Temple in Gurye to see the martyrdom monument of Nokcheon Go Gwang-soon, a militia leader during the late Joseon period.
The Democracy and Human Rights History Tour train will accept up to 70 participants on a first-come, first-served basis, with applications open through a Naver form until the 5th of next month.
A Nam-gu official stated, "It will be a meaningful time to reflect on the values of democracy and human rights while exploring historical sites," adding, "In the second half of this year, we plan to visit Amtaedo Island in Sinan-gun, a site of anti-Japanese peasant movements and intense tenant disputes."
Meanwhile, since 2021, Nam-gu has been operating the Democracy and Human Rights History Tour program to commemorate and restore the honor of the victims of the civilian massacre incidents at Songam-dong and Hyochon Station in May 1980, as well as to foster the democratic and human rights awareness of local residents.
So far, the tour has explored areas such as Gwangju Park in Sajik-dong, which still bears traces of the Japanese colonial period, the Taebaek Mountain Range Literature Museum in Boseong-gun, and places like Jinju and Hampyeong, where the Hyungpyeong Movement began.
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