The unveiling ceremony of the statue of former President Park Chung-hee is under way in front of the North Gyeongsang Provincial Office in Andong, southeastern South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2024.

The statue symbolizing a Korean "comfort woman" in front of the ... is giving Japan a bad reputation internationally," said Park Won-gon, an international relations professor at Handong University.

The statue was set up in September 2020 by a civic group in Germany, the Korea Association, which worked with local authorities to establish it in an urban park. The permit granted for the statue ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - One test of the commitment by Japan and South Korea to resolve the "comfort women" issue may be the fate of a statue in front of Tokyo's embassy in Seoul. The bronze of a ...

Buseoksa temple, located in South Korea’s South Chungcheong province, announced on Dec. 25 its plan to conduct a 100-day ritual featuring the disputed statue at the temple around the period of ...