National Museum of Korea on track for record-breaking year

The National Museum of Korea welcomed a surge in visitors in the first half of 2026, with numbers climbing 39.7 percent compared with the same period last year.

It marks the first time that half-year attendance has surpassed 3 million since the museum opened in 1945.

The six-month figure even exceeds the museum's total attendance for all of 2024, which stood at 3.78 million visitors.

The rise was especially pronounced among international visitors, whose January-June numbers jumped 68.8 percent f ...