President Lee Jae Myung (second from right) visits the former Namyeong-dong Counter-Communist Police Bureau building on Tuesday, a notorious site of police suppression and human rights abuses during South Korea’s authoritarian era, located in Namyeong-dong, Yongsan-gu.

The site, where dissidents and pro-democracy activists were tortured by police in the late 1970s and 1980s, now serves as a museum dedicated to the pro-democracy movement.

(Photos provided by the Presidential Office)


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