These clothes were worn by Kim Dae-jung during his time in prison. After being sentenced to death in 1981, Kim Dae-jung was sent to the Chungju prison. Visits from his family were restricted. Kim’s wife Lee Hee-ho knitted clothes and blankets to give more warmth than the prison uniform. The death sentence was later commuted, and he was allowed in 1982 to go into exile in the United States.
Kim Dae-jung donated the prison clothes to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2001.
