So, this was the most controversial museum I've ever visited. Ahn Jung Geun is treated here as a revolutionary, dedicated to the freedom of his country. He is celebrated, he has a giant statue, his calligraphy is all over the place. His quotes are memorialised, his actions re-enacted in wax statues speaking with the voices of actors. Here's the problem, though. His most famous action is the assassination of a Japanese prince in a train station.

So, the story is very interesting. The whole museum is in Korean, with no English anywhere, so I experienced this museum through the lens of Google translate, which was surprisingly doable. The only English in the museum is in the foreign newspapers in the exhibit that report on the murder/assassination. The foreign language newspapers are hilarious, because they're captioned in Korean like, "the foreign newspapers report on the farcical show trial", but then when you read it in English, they call Ahn a thug, who was given a fair chance to speak, but just rambled incomprehensibly about his ideas, so the jury decided that his crime couldn't have been politically motivated, because he was so ignorant. We see the prince called an oppressor in Korean, while the newspapers called him basically an unimportant old man, who had no reason for being targeted.

I don't want to say the museum was bad, but it is very biased, so bear that in mind when you visit. It is a fascinating look into how every country in the world is rewriting their history, not just the big players. I'd recommend it for the pure novelty value, and for curiosity, but if you're just looking for a history museum to bring your kids to to learn about Korea, maybe choose somewhere else. There's a graphic exhibit about the assassin's cutting part of their finger off, and it's a lot of reading, and a couple of audio recordings.