Picture of the Day: Activists Attempt to Install Forced Laborer Statue at Yongsan Station

Calling for approval of forced laborer statue

Labor activists unveil the model of a statue symbolizing Korean laborers forcibly taken abroad by the imperialist Japan during World War II at the Yongsan Station Square in western Seoul on April 6, 2017. They called for the government to allow them to set up the statue at the square on the Aug. 15 Independence Day. Early this year, the nation’s two largest umbrella labor unions unsuccessfully tried to establish the statue there on the March 1 Independence Movement Day. The government disapproved the demand, saying the square is state land. Up to 1.4 million Koreans are estimated to have been forced to work at coal mines, factories and construction sites abroad from 1939-45, when Korea was a Japanese colony. (Yonhap)

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Doug
Doug
7 years ago

It was terrible and should never be forgotten but it’s time to move on, I would be worrying a lot more about North Korea than Japan.

Smokes
Smokes
7 years ago

Oh what a slippery slope they’ve created. How long before we see a statue of that Ajeoshi with his pants around his ankles from the protest?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago

It’s not every day you see a statue of a concentration camp survivor working up enough strength to salute Hitler.

It must be some sort of Jungian thing.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago
ChickenHead
ChickenHead
7 years ago
guitard
guitard
Reply to  GIKorea
7 years ago

Instead of Yongsan Station – how about putting up a bronze statue version of this guy in front of Harajuku or Shibuya Station in Tokyo?

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