SEOUL, July 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Chang-yeol, head of Korea Botanic Garden which displays a pair of statues featuring a man who resembles Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bowing to a figure of a seated young girl, said Wednesday he has no plan to remove the statues called ‘Everlasting Atonement.’ In his interview with [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The foreign ministry said Tuesday that international courtesy for foreign leaders should be taken into consideration, after local media reported on a pair of bronze statues at a local botanical garden of a man bowing on his knees before a wartime sexual slavery victim. The statues sparked controversy, as [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A sculpture in front of a government building referred to as the ‘Grim Reaper’ among civil servants is once again looking for a new home. The sculpture, which was located on the boulevard of Sejong Government Complex 2 in the administrative city of Sejong, was removed last Saturday. The [...]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A statue symbolizing Korean victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery finally got ensconced in Virginia on Sunday, after being stored in a warehouse for three years due to Tokyo’s alleged efforts against its installation. A civic group pushing to erect the statue of a young girl commemorating the former [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In St. Mary’s Square, San Francisco, a direction sign has been installed to make it easier to find the location of the Comfort Women memorial. On Sunday, the public commemorated the second anniversary of the establishment of the memorial inside and at the entrance of St. Mary’s Square. On [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A visiting Japanese curator on Thursday called for worldwide efforts to fight growing art censorship in Japan and resume the exhibition of a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery at an international arts festival in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan. Yuka Okamoto, who [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Artists participating in the Aichi Triennale 2019 are demanding that their work be withdrawn following the organizers’ removal of the Statue of a Girl of Peace. South Korean artists Park Chan-kyong and Lim Min-ouk asked the Triennale secretariat to remove their work from the exhibition as a protest against [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A new “comfort women” memorial statue will be unveiled in Seoul this week, when the nation marks International Memorial Day for Comfort Women amid its intensifying diplomatic and trade conflict with Japan, officials said Monday. The new statue, made by a nonprofit association of Korean residents in San Francisco [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The host of the Aichi Triennale International Contemporary Art Festival, one of Japan’s largest international arts exhibitions, has shut down one of its sections that displayed the “Statue of a Girl of Peace,” symbolizing wartime “comfort women.” In response, foreign artists and feminists have staged a protest by becoming [...]
BERLIN/TOKYO, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Japan has allegedly pressured a German museum to remove a statue of a girl representing victims of Japan’s World War II-era sexual slavery from display, a South Korean civic group said Sunday amid escalating political and trade tensions between the two neighboring countries. According to Korea Verband, a nonprofit [...]