The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Peace Park 5 segments Close to the North Korean border, several units of US American and Korean soldiers are stationed to protect Seoul (which is accessible by subway) against attacks from the North. For the 60th anniversary of the armistice agreement in 2013 between North and South Korea, which ended the Korean War, the […]
Location: Campus of Konkuk University 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate The World Language Stones on the campus of Konkuk University symbolize the languages of the world. Germany has maintained a segment of the Berlin Wall – a sign of the overcoming of separation, as hope for the still separated North and South Korea. This piece of the Berlin […]
Location: Jeju April 3rd Peace Park 2 segments from Potsdamer Platz Jeju is a Southern barrier island of South Korea, on the edge to Japanese territory. As a result of the ideological struggles between the political left and right wings after the independence of Korea from the Japanese colonial reign, the population suffered from excessive massacres. In memory […]
Location: in front of TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd. building 1 segment from Waldemarstraße Due to the close economic relations between Germany and Japan, TÜV Rheinland Japan was founded in 1978. In 2005, the year of the opening of the state-of-the-art Global Technology Assessment Center in Yokohama, a Wall segment was placed on the freely accessible area […]
Location: Museum of Ueno 2 segments The close relationship between Germany and Miyako-jima, the main island of Miyako Islands, dates back to a shipwreck in the late 19th century. Back then, a tea-laden German schooner smashed on the coral reefs of the coast of the Japanese outpost on the border to Taiwan. Eight sailors were rescued […]