The record
A German gift to the city at its 1993 Expo, which Korean newspapers report fenced in, scrawled on and little known.
Pieces of the Wall have stood in Daejeon's Expo Science Park since the city held the 1993 World Expo. Chungcheong Today, in May 2018, says the city received them from the German government as a gift at the Expo, with the hope of Korean reunification in mind, and that they stand in the Expo Science Park, scrawled with decades of graffiti and with reinforcing steel showing. Officials told the paper that cleaning off the graffiti risked damaging the concrete. The Daejeon Marketing Corporation, the city's agency for the Expo site, managed the park without the means to care for the pieces, and few residents knew they were there.
The Daejeon Ilbo returned to it in February 2020 and counted seven concrete blocks, standing behind metal fencing with a small information board in front of the Daejeon Expo Memorial Hall, with no plan to preserve them or to use them for culture or tourism. The Berlin Wall Archive's listing gives six. In May 2022 the Geumgang Ilbo placed the piece inside the park's Unification Hall, saying it had been moved to its present indoor place after years outdoors had left it weathered and vandalised. The reports therefore disagree about the count and about whether the pieces stand inside or outside, and the most recent is not necessarily the right one; the page rests on press accounts, and no holder's page has been found.
How did it get here?
A gift from the German government at the 1993 Daejeon Expo, as Chungcheong Today reports it.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #89.
존재감 없는 대전 베를린장벽… 낙서로 얼룩 흉물 전락 — 충청투데이 ↗
2 May 2018: Daejeon received pieces of the Berlin Wall as a gift from the German government at the 1993 Expo; they stand in the Expo Science Park, covered in graffiti with exposed steel, managed by the Daejeon Marketing Corporation, and little known.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
대전 베를린 장벽 수십년째 흉물 방치 — 대전일보 ↗
5 February 2020: seven concrete blocks brought to Daejeon in 1993 stand fenced, with a small information board, in front of the Daejeon Expo Memorial Hall in the Expo Science Park; the Daejeon Marketing Corporation is responsible; no preservation or use plan exists.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
대전의 ‘베를린 장벽’ 아시나요 — 금강일보 ↗
12 May 2022: a piece of the Berlin Wall shown at the 1993 Expo now stands in the Daejeon Unification Hall in the Expo Science Park, moved to its indoor place after exposure caused deterioration and vandalism.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 89
Source-reported segments: 6. This is not a separately verified count.
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