National Sports Museum of Korea opens in Seoul's Olympic Park

15 October 2026

Korea opened the National Sports Museum of Korea, its first national museum devoted to sports, inside Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, Seoul.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism runs it together with the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, and Kim Chung-bae is its director.
The building spreads from two basement levels up to the fourth floor, with permanent galleries on the second and third floors and a rooftop garden on top.
The collection holds some 70,000 sports items, kept in the basement stores when not on show.
On show are the competition uniform of Yang Jung-mo, the country's first Olympic gold medallist, the winner's medal Suh Yun-bok took at the Boston Marathon, and the boots worn by Kim Yong-sik, a pioneer of football in Korea.
The museum also displays the torch and a hoop from the Seoul Olympics opening ceremony.
Minister Chae Hwi-young attended the opening ceremony with about 150 guests.