| National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation | |||||||
| Coordinates: | 35.125°N 129.0923°W | ||||||
| Mapframe-Zoom: | 14 | ||||||
| Location: | 48532, 100, Honggok-ro, 320beon-gil, Nam District, Busan, South Korea | ||||||
| Type: | National history museum | ||||||
| Director: | Park Cheolgyu | ||||||
| Publictransit: | Daeyeon station, then bus | ||||||
| Car Park: | --> | ||||||
| Website: | (in English) | ||||||
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The National Memorial Museum of Forced Mobilization under Japanese Occupation (FoMo;) is a national history museum in Busan, South Korea. It first opened on December 10, 2015.[1]
It covers the Japanese colonial period (1910–1945), in particular when Koreans were forced to perform labor and moved to other places to support Japan.[2] The museum was founded by the South Korean Ministry of the Interior and Safety,[3] although jurisdiction was transferred to the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs in 2016.
, admission into the museum is free of charge.[4] Its director is Park Cheolgyu.[5]
In 2017, Jikai Taketomi, a Japanese man who runs a private war archive in Japan, donated 30 items from his collection to the museum, and offered his apologies for Japan's role in World War II.[6]
In 2018, a bronze statue that had been illegally erected in protest in front of the Japanese Consulate General in Busan was moved to the museum, despite pushback from the protestors who installed it.[7]
In October 2019, former Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama visited the museum. Hatoyama said after the visit:[8] [9]