Korean War Museum, Seoul, Korea

The Korean War Memorial is located in Yongsan-gu, in southern Seoul. The museum is quite huge and contains tens of thousands of exhibits. It was a public holiday when we attended so the museum was closed, but there is a very large display of aircraft, tanks and even ships beside the museum which is open to the public.

The museum was opened in 1994. 

The monument in front of the museum looks like a ballistic missile.

Ironically, the statuary frieze that runs around the monument is in a very 'Soviet realist' style.

"Onward to victory!"

"Death to the Capitalists! (or is it Communists?)"

The military exhibits

A South Korean patrol boat

The Boeing B52 Stratofortress bomber strategic bomber went into production in 1952 and still in use today. 

Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star, late 40s / early 50s fighter and trainer

North American T-28A Trojan. Served the Republic of Korea Air Force as a trainer from the 1960s to 1989.

Curtiss C-46F Commando transport



Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar





North Korean MiG-19 (actually a Chinese manufactured variant). This example was flown by North Korean Captain Lee Woong-pyeong, who defected in the aircraft on 25 February 1983.

American armoured personnel carrier variants

Antonov An-2 biplane transport. These tough, short take off and landing aircraft are still in production in Russia today as they are so versatile. Beside the MiG-19

Various missile launchers 

Fairchild C-123 Provider transporter

McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II
Naval anti-aircraft gun mounts, probably from a US ship.

The helicopter display sits above the Children's Museum. The Korean war saw the first real use of the helicopter in war.

Grumman S-2A Tracker

A captured North Korean infiltration boat. Stealth boats like this were used to drop and collect NK agents in South Korea and for smuggling.

More armored personnel carriers

Heavy artillery piece

Massive US assault gun

Soviet assault gun 

BMP-1. Shelly and I drove a BMP-2 in the Czech Republic many years ago. Great fun - https://militarymuseum.blogspot.com/2020/03/soviet-bmp-drive.html

Sherman Firefly?

Museum address: 29, Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, 04353 (8, Yongsan-dong 1-ga)
Website: https://www.warmemo.or.kr:8443/Eng/index