See also Korea
The first museum in Korea, the Museum of the Government-general of Korea, was established in Seoul in 1915 by the Japanese government. Branch museums were eventually established in Kyŏngju, North Kyŏngsang Province (1926), Puyŏ, South Ch’ungchŏng Province (1939) and Kongju, South Ch’ungchŏng Province (1940), and city museums were established in P’yŏngyang and Kaesŏng, Kyŏnggi Province (1930), now in North Korea. In 1945, after the end of the Japanese occupation, the network of national museums was reorganized as the National Museum of Korea under the Ministry of Education. With the division of the country after the Korean War (1950–53), jurisdiction of the National Museum in South Korea was invested in the Ministry of Culture and Information in 1968. The following year, the Tŏksu Palace Museum, which included the royal collection of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), was incorporated into the National Museum’s holdings. In ...
