To honor the 360-year struggle of the Haui Three Islands (Haui, Sangtae, and Hatae) residents to reclaim their land — a struggle that stretched from the late Joseon dynasty through the immediate aftermath of liberation — the Haui Three Islands Peasant Movement Memorial Hall was built in 2009 on the former site of Haui-buk Elementary School. This memorial hall sheds light not only on the tenant farmer dispute of the 1920s and 1930s described in Story 2, but on the entire history of land struggles on these islands, reaching back much further to the late Joseon dynasty.
Haui Island is also the hometown of Kim Dae-jung, who later became President of South Korea. The fact that a building once used as a school now serves as a space documenting the history of islanders' resistance, and the fact that this same island produced the nation's highest leader, are perhaps best understood not as two coincidentally overlapping facts, but as two expressions of a spirit of resistance and self-reliance that this island has carried for a long time.
The hall opened on April 24, 2009, in the former Haui-buk Elementary School. Contemporary reporting described a 612-square-meter, single-story building with land-struggle and farming-culture galleries. Its categories—history, resistance, and peace—are the museum's interpretive structure, not substitutes for each document's date and legal meaning. Kim Dae-jung attended the opening and related the movement to his own life, an important personal memory that should not make the earlier movement a prelude to one politician's career.