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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...