The Seoul History Archives () is a service operated by the

Seoul Museum of History The Seoul Museum of History () is a history museum located at Sinmunno 1-ga, Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea. Description The museum depicts the evolution of Seoul from the prehistoric period to the current day. It also hosts special exhi ...

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

, South Korea. Its website was first opened to the public in 2014. Its purpose is to provide materials and knowledge to the general public, free of charge. Beginning in 2020, many of its materials have been available for non-commercial and even commercial use. , it had a total of 26,131 items in its collection. In 2020, 36,869 items were downloaded by the public, with usage continually increasing since. This number was a 50% increase from the previous year's number of 24,275.

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