On March 15, 1960
the Rhee Syng-man administration
rigged the Presidential Election to stay in power.

In the face of injustice,
more than 10,000 citizens and students rose to their feet.

The police indiscriminately shot
and killed 9 people and injured dozens.
Then, on April 11, a body was found,
with a tear gas bomb stuck in one of the eyes,
in the sea in front of the Jungang Pier in Masan.
It was Kim Ju-yeol, a student at Masan Commercial High School,
who had been missing.

It caused an uproar and the democratic movement spread across the country.
The April 19 Revolution in particular
left 187 dead, 1,800 wounded, and 6,000 harmed.
But it contributed to the downfall
of the Rhee Syng-man administration
who had been in power for 13 years.

Then, 8 years later in 1968,

the 3. 15 (March 15) Democratic Cemetery
was established on the foothills of Aegibong Peak in Guam-dong, Changwon
for those who had lost their lives in the tragic event.

Masan has become a sacred land of democracy
amidst the turbulent modern history of Korea.

The flame of freedom, democracy and justice
continues to burn
in the hearts of the people of Korea.