DAEGU, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The southeastern city of Daegu is set to hold the unveiling ceremony of a statue of former President Park Chung-hee on a plaza in front of its main train station Monday amid protests from opponents denouncing him as a dictator. The Daegu metropolitan government headed by conservative Mayor Hong [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon (1821-1846), the first Korean native Catholic priest, was erected at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City on Tuesday (local time). The statue was installed by the outer wall of St. Peter’s Basilica, adjacent to the entrance to the Vatican Grottoes, where most [...]
BUSAN, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A blueprint of a statue of late former U.S. Army Gen. Richard Whitcomb (1894-1982), dubbed the father of Korean War orphans, was unveiled Thursday. A Busan civic committee said it has singled out the Whitcomb statue blueprint by artist Kwon Chi-gyu from among five candidates. It depicts Whitcomb and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will seek to build a statue of a British journalist in his birthplace to commemorate his activism against Japanese imperialists in the early 20th century, the veterans ministry said Monday. Veterans Minister Park Min-shik unveiled the plan in Britain on Friday (local time) as he met with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A giant robot doll named Younghee from Netflix’s original series “Squid Game” made an appearnance at .the Olympic Park in southeastern Seoul. Younghee is the tagger robot from the survival drama’s first round, ‘Red Light, Green Light’. Netflix Services Korea Ltd., the local unit of Netflix, created a miniature [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of King Sejong, the inventor of the Korean alphabet, Hanguel, will go up in Uzbekistan’s capital as part of a cultural exchange between two local districts. The office of Seocho Ward in southern Seoul said Thursday it signed a memorandum of understanding with the office of Mirabad [...]
BUSAN, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue of the penguin character Pengsoo wearing a protective mask, set up at Gwangalli Beach in Busan last year to the delight of locals, has returned without a mask, instead wearing a bandage on its flipper as proof of a COVID-19 vaccination. Busan’s Suyeong District said that the [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid a series of assaults from conservative extremists in Japan surrounding the case of sex slaves committed by the Japanese military, like-minded Japanese citizens are gathering to hold exhibitions of the Statue of Peace. The Tokyo Organizing Committee for the Inconvenient Exhibition of Expression, consisting of civic group activists [...]
BERLIN, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Hundreds of people staged a rally in Berlin on Tuesday to protest a district office’s order to remove a statue in the German capital symbolizing victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery. Some 300 activists and citizens gathered near the statue, formally called “The Statue of Peace,” in Berlin’s Mitte [...]
SEOUL/BERLIN Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea voiced criticism Thursday over Japan’s call for the removal of a statue erected in Germany of a girl symbolizing Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery, calling it an act that goes against the spirit of its own apology. Last week, Tokyo expressed regret over the recent installation [...]