Picture of the Day: Ahn Jung-geun Statue Unveiled

Patriots and Veterans Affairs Minister Park Sung-choon (R) and Korea Military Academy chief Yang Jong-soo applaud after the school unveiled a statue for Korean independence fighter Ahn Jung-geun at the academy in Seoul’s Nowon Ward on May 1, 2015. in honor of Ahn. The independence fighter under the Japanese colonial rule of Korea was executed at a prison in China by Japanese authorities after being arrested in 1909 for assassinating Ito Hirobumi, the Japanese resident-general in Korea, at a railway station in Harbin, a city in China’s Heilongjiang Province. (Yonhap)