This rocont museum by Jong Kyu Kim is in one of the most secluded spots of Korea, on a small peninsula within the archipelagos of Yeosu, a city on the country's southern coast. There is a reason for such isolation -it is part of Aeyangwon, the lirst leper community in Korea, founded by missionaries in 1926. Stigmatised and abandoned by society, people with leprosy, or IIansen's Disease, found refuge in this remote land, and a hospital and a church were built for their medical treatment and spiritual redemption. To this day, a feeling of detachment persists, even with, or perhaps because of, an airport sitting just one kilometre away. You practically have to go around half the length of its runway to reach the place by road.
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