The record
Two segments on the lawn of the South Korean state institute that teaches reunification, shipped from Potsdamer Platz in 2021 after Berlin ended the permit under which South Korea's cultural centre had shown them there.
Two segments of the Berlin Wall stand on the grounds of the National Institute for Unification Education in Seoul, the South Korean state body that trains teachers and officials in the question of reunification. Of the four sites recorded in this catalogue in and around Seoul, it is the one whose purpose is nearest to the object's own.
The Federal Foundation's entry for the site is a placeholder that records the two segments without saying where they came from. Korean press reports on the institute's first full public opening, in May 2025, fill the gap: the two concrete blocks had stood at Potsdamer Platz since 2015, shown beside a pavilion called Tongiljeong, the Unification Pavilion, which the Korean Cultural Centre in Germany put up there. The Berlin authorities ended the permit at the end of 2020, the blocks were shipped to Korea, and they were set up on the institute's lawn in February 2021. Who first gave them to the cultural centre, and from which stretch of the Wall they came, the reports do not say.
The record is published because the identification is settled. It had been held back as one of a group of Seoul records that could not be told apart — a city with at least four sites and several records carrying nothing but the city name — and the Foundation's own entry for this listing names the institute.
How did it get here?
Shown at Potsdamer Platz from 2015 beside the Korean Cultural Centre's Unification Pavilion; shipped to Korea after Berlin ended the permit at the end of 2020 and installed in February 2021 (Korean press). The Foundation's entry gives no origin.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #1384.
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry ↗
Two segments of the Berlin Wall on the grounds of the National Institute for Unification Education in Seoul; the entry is explicitly a placeholder pending further information.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
독일분단 상징 '베를린장벽'이 어떻게 서울에? 통일교육원 실물 전시 ↗
CBS NoCut News: two concrete blocks stood at Potsdamer Platz from 2015 beside a pavilion put up by the Korean Cultural Centre in Germany; the Berlin authorities ended the permit at the end of 2020; the blocks reached Korea by ship in February 2021 and stand on the institute's lawn at Suyu-dong, opened to the public in May 2025.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
"베를린장벽 보러오세요"..통일교육원 첫 전면개방 ↗
Financial News, 13 May 2025: a part of the real Berlin Wall was brought by ship from Germany in February 2021 and set up on the institute's lawn.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
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 1384
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