National 3·15 Democratic Cemetery

This description was machine-translated from the Korea Tourism Organization's Korean original.

The National March 15th Democracy Cemetery is the resting place of the spirits of those who died resisting the fraudulent election carried out on March 15, 1960, as a means of the corruption and prolonged rule of the Syngman Rhee dictatorship; the March 15 Uprising became the spark for the April 19 Revolution. The original burial ground was only 1,200 pyeong on a hillside in Guam-dong in 1967, but with the inauguration of the civilian government, a full-scale sacred site project was pursued by gathering the will of all citizens. In March 1998, construction of the March 15 Sacred Park totaling 43,390 pyeong began; in June 2000 the March 15 Memorial Tower and relief walls, symbolic sculptures selected through a public competition, were installed; and in December of the same year the graves of democratic martyrs were relocated and the cemetery was completed. On August 1, 2002, it was elevated from March 15 Sacred Park to the National March 15th Democracy Cemetery, and a completion ceremony in March 2003 was held to exalt the sacred spirit of sacrifice of patriotic martyrs and to allow visitors to take in at a glance the vivid scenes of the fierce democratic struggle. The National March 15th Democracy Cemetery is a space of remembrance honoring the noble spirits of those who died for the nation, and a historical education site for democratization that will forever transmit to later generations the spirit of the March 15 Uprising, which stood at the center of defending human rights.