Remembering March 1st Online: 'Seodaemun, 1919 The Shout of That Day'

Over 30,000 Participants Annually Join the March 1st Festival, This Year Safely Held Online... Seodaemun Prison History Hall Plans Various Online Programs for the 102nd Anniversary of the Samil Movement

The event "Seodaemun, The Shout of That Day in 1919!" which was held every year at the Seodaemun Prison History Hall on Samiljeol, will be conducted online and non-face-to-face this year. Photo of the Seodaemun Prison History Hall exterior.

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seodaemun-gu (Mayor Moon Seok-jin) announced on the 19th that the Seodaemun Prison History Hall will host the program "Seodaemun, 1919 The Shout of That Day!" ahead of the 102nd anniversary of the March 1st Movement.

This event has been held annually at the Seodaemun Prison History Hall with the participation of about 30,000 citizens on March 1st, but this year it was planned as a non-face-to-face online event to reflect on the meaning of the Independence Movement and to honor the spirit of the patriots and independence activists.

Starting from the 22nd of this month, videos under the theme "March 1st and Seodaemun Prison through Video" will be sequentially released on the Seodaemun Prison History Hall YouTube channel, interpreting the meaning of March 1st through classical music, Korean traditional music, and theatrical performances.

There are four videos in total: ▲ "The Shout of 1919 That Day through Classical Music," featuring violin, cello, and piano melodies set against the backdrop of Seodaemun Prison’s prison cells and execution grounds ▲ a Korean traditional music performance themed on Manhae Han Yong-un and "Silence of My Beloved" ▲ a theatrical performance about the March 1st Independence Movement and the prison struggles of independence activists ▲ and a video titled "Shouting the Shout of That Day in 1919," created in collaboration with independence movement memorial halls in Seoul and Gyeonggi regions.

On March 1st, these videos will also be screened on electronic display boards installed inside the Seodaemun Prison History Hall.

Additionally, starting from the 26th, videos guiding the creation of "historical content" such as ▲ books related to the patriots who led the March 1st Movement ▲ framed March 1st Movement Taegukgi flags ▲ Taegukgi snow globes will be uploaded sequentially on the Seodaemun Prison History Hall YouTube channel.

Elementary school students who receive the experience materials by mail through prior application will watch these videos and create March 1st commemorative historical content.

The Seodaemun Prison History Hall will be open for free viewing from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM on March 1st. However, only those who have made reservations through the history hall’s website, limited to 150 people per hour, can enter. Reservations are allowed for groups of up to five people.

Mayor Moon Seok-jin said, "I hope that the spirit of the March 1st Movement, carried on by patriots who never gave up regardless of the circumstances a century ago, will be passed on as hope to us today."

Meanwhile, the Seodaemun Prison History Hall is a historic site where many independence activists endured hardships since it opened in 1908 under the name Gyeongseong Prison by the Japanese colonial government. In 1919, when the March 1st Movement occurred, thousands of patriots including the 33 national representatives were imprisoned here, and it is also the place where Yu Gwan-sun died in September 1920.

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