Actress Song Hye Kyo and Professor Seo Kyung Duk have donated 10,000 Itaewon guidebooks to Mongolia to celebrate Liberation Day.
These guidebooks, available in Korean and Mongolian, can be found at the temporary Itaewon Memorial Hall in Ulaanbaatar and will also be displayed at the new Itaewon Memorial Hall.
The guidebook covers important details about Itaewon’s anti-Japanese independence efforts, his work in Mongolia, the Itaewon Memorial Park, his family mausoleum, and his life.
Professor Seo explained, “As more Korean tourists visit Mongolia, this is a great chance to highlight Itaewon’s role in the independence movement.” He added, “Maintaining these historical sites abroad needs constant attention and visits from our citizens.”
For those who can’t visit Ulaanbaatar, the guidebook can be downloaded from the ‘Our History Stories Abroad’ website.
Over the last 13 years, Seo Kyung Duk and Song Hye Kyo have donated Korean guidebooks, signs, and relief sculptures to 37 Korean independence sites abroad. Recently, multilingual videos about lesser-known female independence activists like Jeong Jeong-hwa and Yoon Hee-sun have been made and shared worldwide.
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