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Donghak Peasant Revolution Memorial Park was opened on May 11, 2022 (Donghak Peasant Revolution Day) at Jeongeup Hwangtohyeon Battelfield (Historic Site No.295), where the Donghak Peasant Army achieved a great victory over the Jeolla Gamyeong Army on May 11, 1894. In Donghak Peasant Revolution Memorial Park, permanent exhibitions and various educational experience programs are being held to spread the historical meaning of the Donghak Peasant Revolution to the whole nation.
Sabaltongmun is a revolt plan to eliminate the tyranny of Jo Byung-gap and to create a better world. To conceal the leader, participants wrote their names in a bowl shape and this plaza represents the rounded-shaped of the Bowl Manifesto. The pillars erected around the square symbolize the bamboo spears, and the pointed ovals at the top of each pillar symbolize torches used at that time.
Period of Operation Tuesday to Saturday (Closed on Sundays and Mondays)
Contact Number Website Online Reservation
063-530–9406
The Visitor Center provides user information on major facilities and museums in Donghak Peasant Revolution Memorial Park.
Period of Operation Wednesday to Sunday (all the year round)
※ Subject to change according to the event schedule of the Memorial Park.
Contact Number Website Online Reservation 063-530–9422
This is a site where you can experience the history of Donghak Peasant Revolution. It can accommodate up to 200 people at the same time with 29 general campsites and 22 autocamp sites.
Period of Operation Tuesday to Sunday (all the year round)
Contact Number 063-530–9422,9406
This is an educational training and accommodation facility where you can learn the historical meaning of the Donghak Peasant Revolution. With 5 double rooms and 8 quad rooms, it can accommodate 42 people per day.
This space is a recreated environment of Hwangtohyeon battle when the Donghak Peasant Army achieved the first victory over the Jeolla Gamyeong Army on May 11, 1894.
This is the path from the entrance of the memorial park to the museum. You can feel the revolutionary spirit of the Donghak Peasant Army while walking on the same yellow soil road that the Donghak Peasant Army walked.
This is a symbolic sculpture that shows 90 regions across the country, including Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, Chungcheong-do, Jeolla-do, Gyeongsang-do, and Hwanghae-do, where the peasant forces rose up during the Donghak Peasant Revolution in 1894. The white column symbolizes the peasant army in white cotton clothes and the purity of the revolution.
This wall is an embodiment of Donghak peasant army through stone plastic arts by utilizing the slope of the exterior wall of the exhibition hall. The determination of the Donghak peasant army, who rose up to create an “equal world where people can live as human beings” and drive out the Japanese army that invaded Korea, is expressed using the mosaic technique with six different colors of granite.
Period of Operation Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00am – 6:00pm (The last entry is at 5:30pm)
Closed every Monday and on January 1st.
Contact Number 063-530-9405
Donghak Peasant Revolution Museum, which was opened on May 11, 2022, consists of an exhibition hall, a memorial hall, and symbolic sculptures.
Hours of Operation Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00am – 6:00pm
Closed every Monday and on January 1st.
Contact Number 063-536-9452
Donghak Peasant Revolution Memorial Hall, which was opened in 2004, consists of a permanent exhibition hall, a children's exhibition hall, and a special exhibition hall. From 2011 to the present, the Donghak Peasant Revolution Memorial Foundation, a special corporation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, has been commissioned by Jeollabuk-do to operate it.
Hours of Operation 09:00 ~ 18:00 / Closed every Monday
Contact Number 063-530-9455
Donghak Peasant Revolution Education Center, opened in 2004, holds various events including those related to Donghak Peasant Revolution as well as other events that can contribute to the development of culture and art.
Hours of Operation Tuesday to Saturday 09:30 ~ 17:30
Break time: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Contact Number 063-530-9407
This is a recreational area in the Memorial Park where you can have some tea and drinks.