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Yangjae Citizen's Forest is located near Yangjae Tollgate on the Gyeongbu Highway, the entrance
to Seoul City. Built for the 1986 Asian Games and 1988 Seoul Olympics, the land was prepared on
July 1983 as part of Gaepo-gu Land Arrangement Plan. The construction of the Forest continued for
about three years and completed on November 1986. The total area is 358,992 sq. meters. The park's
major facilities include landscaped facilities, such as Grass Field, Octagonal Pavilion, and Pagora
(wisteria trellis). The Forest also has sports facilities, such as tennis and basketball courts.
Other major structures in the Forest include the Memorial Hall for Patriot Yun Bonggil,
a parking lot, children's playground, and an outdoor wedding hall.On Sundays between 10:00 and noon, the management office provides classes for children on the 'Lives of Autumn's Dragonflies.' The classes are designed for both children (kindergarten & elementary school students) and parents to participate together. The classes teach on how to make specimens of dragonflies and how to tell between males and females. Participants will also observe dragonflies laying eggs and learn the number of wing movements of a dragonfly per second. Location: 236, Yangjae 2-dong Information: (02) 575-3895, (02) 571-5715 (Fax) Admission: Free Parking: capacity for 571 cars 
Patriot Yun Bonggil's Memorial Hall 
Patriot Yun Bonggil was one of Korea's independence activists during the Japanese Imperial Period (1910-45).
He threw bombs at Japanese colonial leaders in Shanghai, China, during the Japanese Emperor's birthday
ceremony in 1932. For that and his other activities, he was taken secretly to Japan and executed in late 1932.
The Memorial Hall for Patriot Yun Bonggil has a display of his personal possessions, his other belongings related
to his work as one of Korea's Independence activists during the Japanese Colonial period.The first floor of this Memorial Hall contains books and stationaries from Patriot Yun's educational period, Gisa year's diary during the peasant's movement, Wol-jin Association prospectus, a Peasant's reader, remains from the time of the patriotic deed, an a posthumous honored medal after establishment of the Korean government. The 2floor has an exhibition hall of national independence movement pictures, with about 120 pictures of patriotic soldiers, the March 1st (1919) movement, provisional government activities, Army for National Independent, and many other patriots. The projection room displays films about Patriot Yun's life and other educational and patriotic movies. 
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